I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

—Audrey Hepburn

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Audrey Kathleen Hepburn (née Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and humanitarian. Recognised as a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Golden Age of Hollywood. She was inducted into the...

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If I get married, I want to be very married.

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Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you... You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life.

—John Gardner

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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

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So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.

—Robert Browning

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

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It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible.

—Libba Bray in The Sweet Far Thing

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