Love
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Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs
Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
Love is a serious mental disease
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet
Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love
To love another person is to see the face of God
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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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