Love
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We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept�our own selves�that we love.
The Book of Disquiet
Love is so short, and forgetting takes so long.
If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.
To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.
Reason and love are sworn enemies
Love is a tyrant sparing none
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all
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
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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