Pessoa

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We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It’s our own concept - our own selves - that we love.

This is true in the whole gamut of love. In sexual love we seek our own pleasure via another body. In non-sexual love, we seek our own pleasure via our own idea. The masturbator may be abject, but in point of fact he’s the perfect logical expression of the lover. He’s the only one who doesn’t feign and doesn’t fool himself.

-- Fernando Pessoa, “The Book of Disquiet”

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Vince Foster

“Before we came here, we thought of ourselves as good people.”

-- Vince Foster

Foster is the Clinton aide and friend that committed suicide near the beginning of the administration in the summer of 1993, touching off another round of scandal, perhaps the most vicious of all. The quote comes from an interview he gave a few weeks before his suicide.

[Source: George Stephanopoulos, “All Too Human”]