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Love bestows innocence. It has nothing to forgive. The person loved is not the same as the person seen crossing the street

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 Love bestows innocence. It has nothing to forgive. The person loved is not the same as the person seen crossing the street

Feb 17,2021

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The capacity to fall in love is now thought of as natural and universal — and as a passive capacity. (Love

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 The capacity to fall in love is now thought of as natural and universal — and as a passive capacity. (Love

Jan 24,2021

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That is what he did most of the time, when she was angry or sad or frightened: watched her and listened. He had told her

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 That is what he did most of the time, when she was angry or sad or frightened: watched her and listened. He had told her

Nov 14,2020

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I don’t know if there’s a devil. I used to think of Christ in the desert, tempted by this powerful, visible, evil spirit […]

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 I don’t know if there’s a devil. I used to think of Christ in the desert, tempted by this powerful, visible, evil spirit […]

Nov 05,2020

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She knew that some night [love] would burst and blaze, and it would rise in her again and again, would course in her blood,

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 She knew that some night [love] would burst and blaze, and it would rise in her again and again, would course in her blood,

Oct 18,2020

142

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[Love] must be something like that, she thought now, something ineffable that comes from outside and fills us; something

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 [Love] must be something like that, she thought now, something ineffable that comes from outside and fills us; something

Oct 18,2020

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