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If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.

— Giannina Braschi

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Nostalgia is a fruit with the pain of distance in its pit.

If you look for an identity you find inequality. If you look for similarities you separate one truth from another.

Liberty is not an option. It is a human right.

I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America.

United States of Banana (2011)

When your heart is a party, solitude becomes crowded with memories.

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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