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Men love because they are afraid of themselves afraid of the loneliness that lives in them and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky.

V. F. Calverton

Men love because they are afraid of themselves afraid of the loneliness that lives in them and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky.

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About V. F. Calverton

Victor Francis Calverton was the pseudonym of George Goetz (1900–1940), an unaffiliated American left-radical writer and literary critic.