Robert A. Heinlein

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

     -- Robert A. Heinlein, spoken by Jubal Harshaw in Stranger in a Strange Land

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Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy — in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other

     -- Robert A. Heinlein, spoken by Jubal Harshaw in Stranger in a Strange Land

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My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered humanity does not want to be served. On the contrary, it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases Jubal Harshaw

     -- Robert A. Heinlein, spoken by Jubal Harshaw in Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert A. Heinlein