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My passion for her, even though she could never return it, showed me the difference between inventing a lover and falling in love. The one is about you, the other about someone else.

— Jeanette Winterson The Passion (1987)

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If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much in use for it.

Art Objects (1995)

Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.

Sexing the Cherry (1989)

In therapy, the therapist acts as a container for what we daren't let out, because it is so scary, or what lets itself out every so often, and lays waste to our lives.

Round and round he walked, and so learned a very valuable thing: that no emotion is the final one.

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)

No safety without risk, and what you risk reveals what you value.

Sexing the Cherry (1989)

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