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Indeed, the ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.
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Love should run out to meet love with open arms.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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Marriage is terrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.
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Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.
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Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world.