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“The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical response of joy and suffering.” quote by Terry Tempest Williams — Download Open image

“The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical response of joy and suffering.”

Terry Tempest Williams

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