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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.

On Love
We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.

On Love
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Love is the absence of judgment.
Even if they can find a lover they demand perfection, and the love is destroyed because of that demand.

Being in Love: How to Love with Awareness and Relate Without Fear
Love is the opposite of lust: respecting the other as an end unto himself or herself. When you love someone as an end unto himself, then there is no feeling of hurt; you become enriched through it. Love makes everybody rich.

Being in Love: How to Love with Awareness and Relate Without Fear
Love is the goal, life is the journey.

Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other
I did not want to voice a word that would lift the cover and reveal that hideous emotion I always felt for her, the underside of love.

Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories
The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.

The Human Stain
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