Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth.

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There is need of variety in sex, but not in love.

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The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

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Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.

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