If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?
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If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?
That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.
Am I in love? Absolutely. I'm in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I'm a passionate lover. I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I'm unable to love anyone tangible. I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.
You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--
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