Love
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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
Love is the cheapest of religions
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion
The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery
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