"However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience."

Winterson, Jeanette on love   

"No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on love   

"Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason."

Fielding, Henry on reason   

"It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on reason
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"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."

Wilde, Oscar on reason   

"Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason."

Wesley, John on reason   

"The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it."

Voltaire on reason
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"Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason."

Voltaire on reason
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"Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out."

Smith, Sydney on reason
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"Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do."

Robinson, James H. on reason   

"Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards."

Petersen, Soren F. on reason   

"Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art."

O'Malley, Austin on reason   

"There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."

Morrison, Toni on reason   

"Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do."

Wilkerson, David on love
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"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us."

Stael, Germaine De on love
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"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on love
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"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties."

Renard, Jules on love
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"The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love."

Reik, Theodor on love
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"It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love."

Proverb, Jewish on love   

"Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one."

Proverb, Japanese on love
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"In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek."

Proverb, French on love
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"He that plants trees loves others besides himself."

Proverb, English on love
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"Love laughs at locksmiths."

Proverb on love
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"Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?"

Stravinsky, Igor on love
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"Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet."

Warhol, Andy on love
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"If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too. "

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on love
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"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."

Updike, John on love   

"If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them."

Unknown, Source on love
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"A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)"

Movie, Wizard of Oz on love
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"Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame."

Thoreau, Henry David on love
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"I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on love
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"A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished."

Tebbets, Frank on love
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"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."

Strong, Anna on love
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"It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on love
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"Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have -- by disrupting that order -- a way of surprising."

Havel, Vaclav on theater   

"The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts."

Hare, David on theater   

"The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled."

Diderot, Denis on theater   

"The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent."

Brustein, Robert on theater   

"The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name."

Bagnold, Enid on theater