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Love should run out to meet love with open arms.
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Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world.
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Indeed, the ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
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All life that is not merely mechanical is spun out of two strands: seeking for that bird and hearing him.
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the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing
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Let it be enough for faith, that the whole creation groans in mortal frailty, strives with unconquerable constancy: Surely not all in vain.