Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

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Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

-- Bertrand Russell

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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

-- Bertrand Russell

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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.

-- Bertrand Russell

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