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Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. – Mortimer Adler

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Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. Thats why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. – Mortimer Adler

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When we ask for love, we dont ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice… and begging or pleading for love. – Mortimer Adler

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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. – Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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I didnt like England. I couldnt take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms werent understood. I had to put a big lid on myself. – Jane Campion

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The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live. – Armistead Maupin

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