Who has never been surprised by one of the strangest of the effects produced by the exchange of these words: 'I love you'? by their power of immediately endowing everyone who pronounces them with unique, incomparable qualities, which no one else can deprive them of, which no one is even capable of judging... the inhabitants of the entire earth could unite in contesting the existence of these qualities in one or the other and they would be immediately repulsed... 'What do you want?'... kept at a respectful distance and reduced to silence by the magic power of these sole words waved in front of them: 'They love one another.'
[The Use of Speech, Sarraute, N.]
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