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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

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Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you'd like them to be, although often they turn out the same

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I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well as commitment for all time. The kind that is essential for loving marriages - and love affairs, as well - is a commitment to preserving the essential quality of your partner's soul, adding to them as a person rather than taking away.

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Merle Shain

Merle Shain

Born: 1935
Died: 1989 (aged 54)
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