Love
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Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love
To love another person is to see the face of God
Life is the flower for which love is the honey
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes - and the stars through his soul
There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate
The first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity, in a girl it is boldness. The two sexes have a tendency to approach, and each assumes the qualities of the other
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches
Where there is love there is life
Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself
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