"Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense."

Overby, Mark on love
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"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

Jong, Erica on love
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"Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

Jones, Franklin P. on love
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"Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price."

Jerome, St. on love   

"Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement."

Jampolsky, Gerald G. on love
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"Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love"

Einstein, Albert on love
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"You can't blame gravity for falling in love."

Einstein, Albert on love
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"Love is the river of life in the world."

Beecher, Henry Ward 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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"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."

Freud, Sigmund on love
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"We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us."

Stael, Germaine De on love
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"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

Lewis, C. S. on grief
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"Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame."

Byatt, Antonia S. on grief
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"When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together."

Berger, John on grief
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"A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval."

Rowland, Helen on widowhood   

"Widow. The word consumes itself."

Plath, Sylvia on widowhood   

"Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung."

Saying, Zen on zen
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"I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids -- and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."

Ellison, Ralph on outcasts
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"In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis."

Crisp, Quentin on outcasts   

"Organizations that remain vital show their new employees that they are needed. At the same time, they never forget the value of their long-service employees. And they always give both a second chance."

Unknown, Source on organization   

"People who are sensible about love are incapable of it."

Yates, Douglas on love
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"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears."

Wyatt, Woodrow 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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"Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex."

Barnes, Julian on love
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"I want to be all used up when I die."

Shaw, George Bernard on death
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"Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor."

Seneca on death
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"The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man."

Seattle, Chief on death   

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity."

Santayana, George on death
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"When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on death
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"If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another."

Sade, Marquis De on death   

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."

Sachs, A. on death
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"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

Russell, Bertrand on death
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"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."

Angelou, Maya on aggression
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"Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish."

Cioran, E. M. on aggression
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"What the world really needs is more love and less paper work."

Bailey, Pearl on love
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"We must love one another or die."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"Love is the victim's response to the rapist."

Atkinson, Ti-Grace on love
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