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> [Love is not feeling, child, nor even the passion of lovers, which always seeks only its own gratification. It is the act of caring, of giving, the act of protecting the weak, the helpless, the imprisoned and the desperate. Love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-duncker/love-is-not-feeling-child-nor-even-the-passion-of-lovers-which-always/)

[Patricia Duncker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-duncker/)

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## More by Patricia Duncker

> [Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-duncker/freedom-both-so-priceless-and-so-expensive/)

[Patricia Duncker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-duncker/)

> [“Sav svoj novac je trošila na kupovinu knjiga, a sve vrijeme na njihovo čitanje. Sve su bile ispisane kritikama, odgovorima na marginama, ponekad su…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-duncker/sav-svoj-novac-je-tro-ila-na-kupovinu-knjiga-a-sve-vrijeme-na-njihovo/)

[Patricia Duncker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-duncker/)

> [“The cats are asleep at the end of my bed and all around me, the thundery silence of L'Escarènere, caught at last in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-duncker/the-cats-are-asleep-at-the-end-of-my-bed-and-all-around-me-the/)

[Patricia Duncker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-duncker/)

> [“I stared at the changing patterns on the back of his white shirt as he moved under the trees.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-duncker/i-stared-at-the-changing-patterns-on-the-back-of-his-white-shirt-as/)

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> [You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-duncker/you-write-your-first-novel-with-the-desperation-of-the-damned-you-re/)

[Patricia Duncker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-duncker/)

> [“Kao pobijeđeni revolucionar napustila je svoje seksualne barikade. Nešto se u njoj slomilo, nježno, tiho i nevoljko, i zagnjurila je lice u udubljenje između…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-duncker/kao-pobije-eni-revolucionar-napustila-je-svoje-seksualne-barikade-ne/)

[Patricia Duncker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-duncker/)

> [Love is not feeling, child, nor even the passion of lovers, which always seeks only its own gratification. It is the act of caring,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-duncker/love-is-not-feeling-child-nor-even-the-passion-of-lovers-which-always/)

[Patricia Duncker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-duncker/)

> [“The love between writer and a reader is never celebrated. It can never be proved to exist. But he was the man I loved…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-duncker/the-love-between-writer-and-a-reader-is-never-celebrated-it-can-never/)

[Patricia Duncker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-duncker/)

> [You can say anything, anything, if it is beautifully said.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-duncker/you-can-say-anything-anything-if-it-is-beautifully-said/)

[Patricia Duncker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-duncker/)

> [“Madness and passion have always been interchangeable. Throughout the entire western literary tradition. Madness is an abundance of existence. Madness is a way of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-duncker/madness-and-passion-have-always-been-interchangeable-throughout-the/)

[Patricia Duncker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-duncker/)

> [The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-duncker/the-love-between-a-writer-and-a-reader-is-never-celebrated/)

[Patricia Duncker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-duncker/)

> [“Well -- there are two kinds of loneliness, aren't there? There's the loneliness of absolute solitude -- the physical fact of living alone, working…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-duncker/well-there-are-two-kinds-of-loneliness-aren-t-there-there-s-the/)

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> [“But...if it's so awful and difficult who not try to become a group? Be accepted? He glittered at me for a moment, then said,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-duncker/but-if-it-s-so-awful-and-difficult-who-not-try-to-become-a-group-be/)

[Patricia Duncker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-duncker/)

> [“Ludilo i strast su se uvijek izmjenjivali. Kroz cijelu zapadnu književnu tradiciju. Ludilo je obilje egzistencije. Ludilo je način postavljanja teških pitanja.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-duncker/ludilo-i-strast-su-se-uvijek-izmjenjivali-kroz-cijelu-zapadnu-knji/)

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> [“Ja pričam priče. Mi svi izmišljamo priče. Pričat ću ti priče koje će te nasmijati. Volim da te gledam kako se smiješ. Nikad neću…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-duncker/ja-pri-am-pri-e-mi-svi-izmi-ljamo-pri-e-pri-at-u-ti-pri-e-koje-e-te/)

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