Fluctuating Loyalties
I should blush for the faults that I have committed;
I long for those I can no longer commit.PIERRE ABELARD
We find it innocent to desire and atrocious that the
other desires.MARCEL PROUST
Beware of a brother, for every brother can be a Jacob,
every friend spreads calumny, one dupes the other.
Fraud upon fraud. Deception on deception.JEREMIAH
In a commune in California, sometime in the 1960s, about forty boys and girls gathered in accord with the principles of the strictest sexual communism: forming an established couple was prohibited, partners were to be rotated, and preference based on aesthetic or cultural criteria was rejected. At the end of a year, some of the members who were obese or ugly found that they were being refused access to other members’ bedrooms and started wandering about on
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Publication information:
Book title: The Paradox of Love.
Contributors: Pascal Bruckner - Author, Steven Rendall - Translator.
Publisher: Princeton University Press.
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ.
Publication year: 2012.
Page number: 100.
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