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Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

Orlando
I love you as much as if I were always bidding you farewell. When I'm too alone, I fasten rattles to my ankles and wrists. That way almost all my thoughts are externalized and return to me as replies.

A Breath of Life
You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.

The Stream Of Life
You're my religion. You're all I've got.

A Farewell to Arms
What you tell me about in the nights. That is not love. That is only passion and lust. When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

A Farewell to Arms
But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.
I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.

For Whom the Bell Tolls
No one you love is ever truly lost.
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
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