But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
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But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls.
I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.
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