Love is two people mutually feeding each other, not one living on the soul of the other like a ghoul.

Bessie Head

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Nature of love Love

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Sello

Author

Bessie Head

Source

A Question of Power

Medium

Novel

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Definition

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Writer

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South Africa Africa

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Citation

Head, Bessie. A Question of Power. Davis-Poynter, 1973, pt. 1.

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1970 1970s 20th century
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Love to faults is always blind,
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William Blake

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Power of love Being in love Love

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English
Time
1792 1790s 18th century
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Happiness is the deferred fulfillment of a prehistoric wish. That is why wealth brings so little happiness; money is not an infantile wish.

Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud
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Language
German
Time
1898 1890s 19th century
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Current Citation

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