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What we call love is the desire to awaken and to keep awake in another's body heart and mind the responsibility of flattering in our place the self of which we are not very certain.
What we call love is the desire to awaken and to keep awake in another's body heart and mind the responsibility of flattering in our place the self of which we are not very certain.
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- Paul Geraldy
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