"One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him."

Menninger, Karl A. on love
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"To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together."

Duras, Marguerite on love
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"In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."

Byron, Lord on passion
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"Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."

Byron, Lord on love
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"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor on love
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"Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life."

Buckrose, J.E on happiness
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"The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all."

Murdoch, Iris on churches
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"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness."

Pavese, Cesare on infatuation
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"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love."

Freud, Sigmund on love
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"It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion."

Quinet, Edgar on religion   

"The perfection of art is to conceal art."

Quinet, Edgar on art   

"A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon."

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"Religion is love; in no case is it logic."

Webb, Beatrice Potter on religion   

"Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object."

Frye, Northrop on religion   

"To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance."

Hoffer, Eric on religion
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"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on age and aging
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"When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on experience
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"The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on family
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"You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on fights and fighting
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"Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on analysis
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"Angels fly because they take themselves lightly."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on angels
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"There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on greatness
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hope
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"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on humankind
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"We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hypocrisy
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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."

Hoffer, Eric on affectation
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"A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on apologies
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"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on art   

"The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on art   

"Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on love
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"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on love
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"Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on men   

"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on normality   

"The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on reason
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"A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on birds
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"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on chastity   

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"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes -- our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on tradition   

"The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on trains
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"The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on virtue   

"Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on wives
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