“Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“There's no love without pain.”
— Irving Stone, book Lust for Life
Source: Lust for Life
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De ne savoir pourquoi
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“6360. Without Pains,
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