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• I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon…
• We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
• Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all…
• Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action…
• A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
• A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
• Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
• Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to…
• Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
• If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
• All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
• No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

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