Love
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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
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love
Love is space and time measured by the heart
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one could chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages
In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious
True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have
Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it
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