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There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.

On Love
To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.

Status Anxiety
The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.

On Love
Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.

On Love
Must being in love always mean being in pain?

On Love
Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.

A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary
When we love someone, we have to accept their share of mystery. And that is precisely why we love.

Dans le Caf� de la Jeunesse Perdue
If we love, we must take the package, without judge!

Interview (2012)
Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.

On Love
We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.

On Love
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