All Quotes By Tag: Affair
“It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials – I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered – it became vacuous and trite, meaningless to anyone else. In the end, it’s only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments.”
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“He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.”
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“True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.”
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“I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.”
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“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”