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The fragility of love is what is most at stake here__umanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed__ut strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one.
Christopher Hitchens Hitch-22: A Memoir
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The fragility of love is what is most at stake here__umanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed__ut strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one.

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