"The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know."
-Lawrence Durrell
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"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is."
-Hans Urs von Balthasar
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-Hillary Clinton
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-Milan Kundera
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"I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump."
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"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."
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