Love
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In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious
True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have
Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else
When one loves somebody everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love
Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter
None love, but they who wish to love
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls
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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."
Human, All Too Human
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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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