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"For the other basic kind of love, dependence-love, it is proper to say 'I love'; in fact, here the 'I' is more important than the 'love' "

From Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag

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"Pardon me while I excavate your motives..."

From Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag

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"In philosophy the snake swallows its tail;"

From Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag

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"I ask only to weep for a very long time, to be properly comforted, to refuse all comfort."

From Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag

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"That quality of openness—terrifying—unforced writing that is the highest genius."

From Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag

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"One becomes an intellectual vampire!..."

From Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag

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"...and I have grown up literally never daring to expect happiness..."

From Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag

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"I embrace my solitude as a beautiful gift; I will become beutiful through it!"

From Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag

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"...death is as natural as birth—nothing lasts forever nor would we want to—Once we are dead, we don't know about it, so think of being alive!"

From Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag

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"I kiss you, my happiness- and you cannot stop me..."

From Letters to Vera by Vladimir Nabokov

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"You know, I have never trusted anyone as I trust you. In everything enchanted there's an element of trust. "

From Letters to Vera by Vladimir Nabokov

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"You are made entirely of tiny arrow-like movements- I love every one of them."

From Letters to Vera by Vladimir Nabokov

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"You know what I'd like to do now? To watch you slightly curtsy when stepping up from the street to the sidewalk..."

From Letters to Vera by Vladimir Nabokov

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"You came into my life- not as one comes to visit (you know, 'not taking one's hat off) but as one comes to a kingdom where all the rivers have been waiting for your reflection, all the roads, for your steps. Fate wanted to correct its mistake- as if it has asked my forgiveness for all of its previous deceptions."

From Letters to Vera by Vladimir Nabokov

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"See you soon, my strange joy, my tender night. Here are some poems for you..."

From Letters to Vera by Vladimir Nabokov

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"Yes, I need you, my fairy-tale. Because you are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought- and about how, when I went out to work today and looked a tall sunflower in the face, it smiled at me with all of its seeds."

From Letters to Vera by Vladimir Nabokov

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"I won't hide it: I'm so unused to being- well, understood, perhaps, so unused to it, that in the very first minutes of our meeting I thought: this is a joke, a masquerade trick..."

From Letters to Vera by Vladimir Nabokov