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A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
The Quaker Reader, 1962
- Jessamyn West
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.
- Jane Austen
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After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
Adam, in Adam's Diary
- Mark Twain
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Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
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It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.
from The Scarlet Letter
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
- Pearl S. Buck
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But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.
- Molly Haskell
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To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful,
or am I am beautiful because you love me?
- Oscar Hammerstein, II
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Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
- Ambrose Bierce
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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
- Margaret Anderson
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Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
- St. Augustine
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The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
Another Country, 1962
- James Baldwin
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
- Ingrid Bergman
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Whoso loves, believes the impossible.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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