Love
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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves
They do not love that do not show their love
The course of true love never did run smooth
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs
Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
Love is a serious mental disease
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet
Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead
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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."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
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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