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" The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. "
James A. Baldwin
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" The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide. "
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