“Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.”
“According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing from this portrait of normality, that had left the man unable to perform sexually.”
“...if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.”
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