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Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
A single metaphor can give birth to love.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.
Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.
Till I loved I never lived.
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Complete Poems
Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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