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• It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.
• What’s the likelihood? That the one girl who makes my heart race is the one girl who wants me in return? That…
• I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel. In my experience, and…
• The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as…
• Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human…
• It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they…
• Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.
• She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners…
• Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.
• A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.
• All men want their whores to be unhappy.
• Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

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