"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."

Hugo, Victor on prostitution   

"Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?"

Forster, Edward M. on logic   

"When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist."

Camara, Dom H. on poverty and the poor
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"There are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group because there is less competition there."

Gandhi, Indira on competition
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"Leaders are visible at times of crisis, invisible at times of success."

Mohana Janam on
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"Love is the beauty of the soul."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

Aurelius, Marcus on love
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"Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do."

Auvil, Myrtle on love
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"Real love stories never have endings."

Bach, Richard on love
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"Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones."

Bandler, Richard on love
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"Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex."

Barnes, Julian on love
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"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Love is the victim's response to the rapist."

Atkinson, Ti-Grace on love
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"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on love
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"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love."

Aristotle on love
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"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."

Ardele, Jean Anouilh on love
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"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life."

Ardele, Jean Anouilh on love
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"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."

Anouilh, Jean on love
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"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."

Anderson, Margaret on love
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"The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much."

Barr, Amelia E. on love
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"If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."

Barrie, Sir James M. on love
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"You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so."

Vanbrugh, Sir John on infidelity
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"Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]"

Bible on love
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"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

Bible on love
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"Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love."

Bernard, St. on love
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"Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret."

Behn, Aphra on love
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"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."

Beecher, Henry Ward on love
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"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable."

Beecher, Henry Ward on love
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"When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being."

Becker, Ernest on love
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"Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough."

Beaumarchais, Pierre De on love
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"If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity."

Baudrillard, Jean on love
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"To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light."

Baudrillard, Jean on love
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"It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair."

Baudelaire, Charles on love
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"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive."

Battista, Orlando A. on love
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"If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile."

Barry, Lynda on love
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"Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on love
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"Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis."

Brando, Marlon on acting and actors   

"Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding."

Gandhi, Mahatma on anger
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"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."

Gandhi, Mahatma on life
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"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."

Gandhi, Mahatma on leadership
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