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Sweet words. Gentle deceptive balm. Help, love, to belong together, to come back again_ words, sweet words. Nothing but words. How many words existed for this simple, wild, cruel attraction of two bodies! What a rainbow of imagination, lies, sentiment, and self-deception enclosed it!
Erich Maria Remarque Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
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Sweet words. Gentle deceptive balm. Help, love, to belong together, to come back again_ words, sweet words. Nothing but words. How many words existed for this simple, wild, cruel attraction of two bodies! What a rainbow of imagination, lies, sentiment, and self-deception enclosed it!
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Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

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