In eroticism as dance: one of the partners is always charged with leading the other.

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"Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost."

- Milan Kundera

Love

"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent."

- Milan Kundera

Love

"There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless."

- Milan Kundera

Awareness

"for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes."

- Milan Kundera

Compassion

"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos"

- Milan Kundera

Compassion

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"We cannot control who we fall in love with, but we can choose how we treat them."

- Beauty and the Beast

Relationships

"I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word ‘diva’ and think of it as a negative. I see it as a positive. I want somebody who knows what they want out of life and isn’t afraid to show it."

- Nick Cannon

Relationships

"It’s not what’s under the tree that matters, it’s who’s gathered around it."

Relationships

"As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same."

- Donald E. Westlake

Relationships

"A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright."

- Lucille Ball

Relationships