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Only weak men want women to be weak.

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Anne Fortier
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Novelist
Writer
DK
Weak
Women
Men

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.... death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!
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Think about it. He drinks poison. What kind of man drinks poison? She is the one who stabs herself with his dagger. The manly way.
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Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.
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There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise.
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I am sorry I didn’t tell you the truth before. I was hoping I wouldn’t have to. You kept asking about Romeo and what he was really like. I was hoping that”—he smiled wistfully—“you would recognize me.
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And whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his.
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Who is more amateurish, more vulnerable---those who rely on machines that need to be plugged in, or logged on, or in some other way connected in order to be more than a useless slab of plastic ... or those who have learned to master life without?
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Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow. Well, perhaps you are right. Perhaps the wise spurn one to remain safe from the other, but I should rather choose to have my eyes burnt in their sockets than to have been born without.
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I’ll be back tomorrow,” he said, “at nine o’clock. Don’t open your door to anyone else.” “Not even my balcony door?” “Especially not your balcony door.
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If you let go of me now,” I whispered, stretching against him, “it could be another six hundred years before you find me again. Are you willing to take that risk?
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When the old men fight, the young people die.
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Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.
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In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.
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It's what we call a dolce pazzia... a sweet madness. Once you feel it, you will never want to leave it.
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You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.
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Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry I was not so sure about the reason part.
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We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.
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