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  1. Carol Shields _ The Republic of Love

    Love is not, anywhere, taken seriously. It's not respected. It's the one thing in the world everyone wants, but for some reason people are obliged to pretend that love is trifling and foolish.
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  2. Carol Shields _ The Republic of Love

    Boiled down, isn't love just a form of vanity? You know, the wish to be adored. To be the absolute center for someone else.
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  3. Carol Shields _ The Republic of Love

    So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.
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  4. Carol Shields _ The Republic of Love

    It's hard work being a person, you have to do it every single day.
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  5. Carol Shields _ The Republic of Love

    Open a book this minute and start reading. Don't move until you've reached page fifty. Until you've buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve."
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