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"A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that are institutionalized. It seems to me that a way of life can yield a culture and an ethics. To be "gay," I think, is not to identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of the homosexual but to try and define and develop a way of life."
"No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love."
"Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time."
"To play is to yield oneself to a kind of magic."
"She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable."
