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“Love is an experience in which our whole being is renewed and refreshed as is that of plants by rain after drought. In sex without love there is nothing of this. When the momentary pleasure is ended, there is fatigue, disgust, and a sense that life is hollow.”

— Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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