While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her — for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil. Octave Mirbeau
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Even in love there are many things that can stop love in its tracks. The most common of these is the fear that the other person doesn’t truly love you. When that happens, it is easy to feel that you have no place in the world. But when you realize the truth, when you realize that your love for someone else is real, when they breathe in your foul odor, when they understand what you are, then your love will be born in them.

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