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Diane Ackerman says love requires the utmost vulnerability…

“We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the … Continue reading

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Nathaniel Hawthorne says let men tremble to win the hand of woman…

“Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!” – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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