Love
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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
Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter
None love, but they who wish to love
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were
Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other
Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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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."
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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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