Love
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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
The Journals of Sylvia Plath
And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter� they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.
Letters from Iceland
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
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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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