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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
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else
When one loves somebody everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love
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