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All the most beautiful things in the world are born where opposites meet. The magical colours of sunrise and sunset are born where day meets night. Dreams are born where sleep meets waking. Desires are born on the edge between the permitted and the forbidden — and romance... Romance is born where emotion meets logic, reason meets feeling. It is both reason’s attempt to awaken feeling in itself and feeling’s striving to merge with reason in order to express the inexpressible. It is an idea that reigns

Ever since the world began there has been an unspoken argument among women: should you wait for your prince or hunt him down? Does the woman win the man, or the man the woman? Who makes the first move, the man or the woman. Openly or not. And what counts as a first move anyway: a hello, asking for a phone number, an invitation for coffee, or simply an interested look? How do you tell whether the other person wants a relationship at all? What kind of relationship do they want: a couple of pleasant evenings, or one for life? Do they want a relationship with you in particular? Millions of young people

There are people you must not tell the truth to. Not only do they fail to take it in, they immediately set about wasting an untold amount of their own precious time on trying to refute it. On the other hand, there is little point in lying to them either, since that only keeps them going. In short, talking them out of an obviously pointless occupation is usually an even more pointless occupation.

Someone once said that there are two kinds of warm relationship: the one where you warm each other's hearts, and the one where you boil each other's nerves. Tellingly, in neither case does the couple think of parting. There are couples where you cannot understand not only how they ended up together, but also why they carry on "ruining each other's lives". Marina and Pavlik were exactly that sort, yet splitting up was unthinkable for them.