"To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn."

Jouhandeau, Marcel on intimacy   

"People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it."

Matthews, Andrew on love
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"Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together."

Arendt, Hannah on family
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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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"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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"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today."

White, William Allen on the future
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"Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience."

Unknown, Source on happiness
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"If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever."

Horton, Doug 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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"In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!"

Welles, Orson on achievement
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"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even out virtues."

Balzac, Honore De on women
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"Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love."

Buscaglia, Leo on love
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"Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds."

Dryden, John on love
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"How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?"

Pope, Alexander on forgiveness   

"There are two kinds of people in the world -- those you love, and those you don't understand."

Unknown, Source on humankind   

"Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved."

John of the Cross, St. on love   

"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished."

Mandino, Og on love
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"Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love."

Mencken, H. L. on pleasure   

"He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on death   

"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it."

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy) on happiness   

"Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish."

Ovid on action   

"Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it."

Mencken, H. L. on patriotism
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"Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it."

Unknown, Source on money   

"Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong."

Unknown, Source on kindness
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"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

Ruskin, John on ability
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"Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched."

Cervantes, Miguel De on anger
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"Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away."

Proverb, French on time
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"Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30."

Frost, Robert on time
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"Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on pleasure   

"Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn."

Schwartz, Delmore on time
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"The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance."

Hwang, Brian on ignorance
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"There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him."

Unknown, Source on criticism
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"Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot."

Proverb, Haitian on ignorance   

"The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence."

Baudrillard, Jean on computers   

"Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered."

Greene, Graham on morality   

"Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews."

Frank, Anne on judaism and jews   

"It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children."

Aidoo, Ama Ata on parents and parenting   

"We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again."

Unknown, Source on sadness
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"Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better."

Bible on sorrow
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"The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little."

Lerner, Max on age and aging
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