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"Yes, there is a place where someone loves you both before and after they learn what you are."

"I swear I couldn't love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow."

"The role of the lover is exactly the same as the role of the artist. If I love you, I must make you aware of the things you do not see."

"I want to be good. I can't bear the thought of my soul being hideous."

"To summarize: it is a well known fact that those people who must want to rule are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem."

"I went down to Dad's encyclopedia and looked up HOMOSEXUALITY, but that didn't tell me much about any of the things I felt. What struck me most, though, was that, in that whole long article, the word 'love' wasn't used even once. That made me mad; it was as if whoever wrote the article didn't know that gay people actually love each other. The encyclopedia writers ought to talk to me, I thought as I went back to bed; I would tell them something about love."

"You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, yu won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all."

"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong."

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"I'm traught, whelmed, and feeling the aster."

"I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"

"Don't you realize that being nice just makes you get hurt? Look at yourself. You made all these great friends... but now, you'll probably never see them again. Not to mention how much they've been set back by you. Hurts, doesn't it? If you had just gone through without caring about anyone, you wouldn't have to feel bad now. So I don't get it. If you really did everything the right way, why did things still end up like this?"

"We devote ourselves to something we barely understand, something we can never touch. We give it a name, and we give ourselves a name for doing so. All of it creates this connection. And that connection, that becomes the thing we can touch."