There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
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- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: british
- Born: September 9, 1932
- Died: March 8, 2005
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But can I really will anything? At this moment I feel the pleasure of being stone, the sun warms me, the wind makes acceptable this adjustment of my body, I have no intention of ceasing to be a stone. Why? Because I like it. So then I too am slave to a passion, which advises me against wanting freely its opposite. However, willing, I could will. And yet I do not. How much freer am I than a stone?
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