Love
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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
It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
Love, as it exists in society, is nothing but the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins
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