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My friendship with Leonard began with me invoking the laws of love: the ones that involved the expectancy. "We are one, " I decided shortly after we met. "You are me, and I am you, and it is our obligation to save each other." It took me years for me to realize this sentiment was off the mark. What we are, in fact, is a pair of solitary travelers slogging through the country of our lives, meeting up from time to time at the outer limit to give each other border reports. .Vivian Gornick
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Wharton thought no one could have freedom, but James knew no one wanted freedom.Vivian Gornick
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I began to realize what everyone in the world knows and routinely forgets: that to be loved sexually is to be loved not for one's actual self but for one's ability to arouse desire in the other... Only the thoughts in one's mind or intuitions of the spirit can attract permanently...Vivian Gornick