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Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite num­ber of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limit­ed to one woman).


We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions—love, antipathy, char­ity, or malice—and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.

Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being.