"Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible."

Mooneyham, Stan on love
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"Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away."

Proverb, French on time
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"We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us."

Stael, Germaine De on love
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"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never."

Colton, Charles Caleb on love
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"In jealousy there is more of self-love than love."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on jealousy
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"We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving"

Meltzer, Bernard on giving
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"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad."

Warhol, Andy on compatibility
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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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"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore on love
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"To be able to say how much love, is love but little."

Petrarch, Francesco on love
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"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."

Peguy, Charles on love
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"We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on love
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"If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone."

Oakley, Ann on love
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"I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep."

Neruda, Pablo on love
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"Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love."

Wastholm, Peter on women
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"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage."

Lao-Tzu on courage
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"It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all."

Saltus, Edgar on love   

"Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love."

Francis of Assisi, St. on love
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"Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder."

Mirbeau, Octave on murder   

"Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love."

Key, Ellen on marriage
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"Men often give love for sex, women often give sex for love."

Unknown, Source on women
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"Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage."

Franklin, Benjamin on marriage
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"Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow."

Proverb on love
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"The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of our life for a few moments. In my life you made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone"

Javan on praise
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"Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on intelligence and intellectuals
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"A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain."

Rambler on forgiveness
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"We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love."

Thích Nhat Hanh on love
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"Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves."

Johnson, Samuel on women   

"The media no longer ask those who know something to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it."

Daney, Serge on interviews
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"If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on discovery
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"Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on elegance
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"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."

Darrow, Clarence on ignorance
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"Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life."

Updike, John on religion
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"People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored."

Morgan, Henry on personality
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"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."

France, Anatole on ignorance   

"The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint."

Unknown, Source on silence   

"Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance."

Greene, Graham on happiness
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