Affection
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I'm not like most of the people: excited to madness at the beginning of the affections and then, after a month, completely uninterested by them. I'm the opposite: time passes and affection grows, only dying when the ingratitude and wickedness kills them.
Correspondence (1916)
I always believed that some places are magnets and that we are attracted to them if we walk nearby.
Dans le Caf� de la Jeunesse Perdue
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it
Most people would rather give than get affection
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
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