Quote by V.F. Calverton
Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the lone

Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky. – V.F. Calverton

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