There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.

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I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.

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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

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One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.

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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

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The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.

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