I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to explain himself, promising him something. What it was I do not know. Perhaps they promised that there would always be women in the world who would spend their brightest, freshest, rarest hours to nurse and protect that superiority he cherished in his heart.F. Scott Fitzgerald
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This quote is so true. People who are lonely will go to any length to be loved and adored. They will give anything to be loved and wanted, not just for sex but for companionship.
Source: The Short Stories
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