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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Edward Gibbon

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Ich verstehe unter dieser Leidenschaft die Vereinigung von Verlangen, Freundschaft und Zärtlichkeit, die von einer einzigen Frau entflammt wird, die sie dem Rest ihres Geschlechts vorgezogen und die ihren Besitz als das höchste oder das einzige Glück unseres Wesens sucht.

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