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Loving Someone Condemns You To A Lifetime Of Fear. You Become Painfully Conscious Of How Fragile People Are - Bundles Of Brittle Bones And Vulnerable Flesh, Breeding Grounds For Billions Of Deadly Germs And Horrible Diseases.

Who Are We Really? Combinations Of Common Chemicals That Perform Mechanical Actions For A Few Years Before Crumbling Back Into The Original Components? Fresh New Souls, Drawn At Random For Some Celestial Cupboard Where God Keeps An Unending Supply?or The Same Soul, Immortal And Eternal, Refurbished And Reused Through Endless Lives, By That Thrifty Housekeeper? In Her Wisdom And Benevolence She Wipes Off The Memory Slates, As Part Of The Cleaning Process, Because If We Could Remember All The Things We Have Experienced In Earlier Lives, We Might Object To Risking It Again.

Humor Is An Excellent Method Of Keeping A Tight Rein On Unproductive Displays Of Emotion.

Peculiar Or Not, It Is My Idea Of Pleasure. Why, Why Else Do You Lead This Life You Don't Enjoy It? Don't Talk Of Duty To Me; You Men Always Have Some High-sounding Excuse For Indulging Yourselves. You Go Gallivanting Over The Earth, Climbing Mountains, Looking For The Sources Of The Nile; And Expect Women To Sit Dully At Home Embroidering. I Embroider Very Badly. I Think I Would Excavate Rather Well.

I Would Never Have Supposed That Inexperienced Girl Was Capable Of Such Cold-blooded, Calculating Manipulation!