"To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything."
"We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear."
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Source: Bill Russell, Taylor Branch (1980). “Second wind: the memoirs of an opinionated man”
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