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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
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You are good when you strive to give of yourself.
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Work is love made visible.
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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
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I don’t know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.
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Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
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Of Severus, my brother, I learned to love my kinsmen, to love truth, to love justice.
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Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.
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We sought one another long before we met, and by the characters we heard of one another
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In love there is no first nor last!
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Only love is motion and rest in one.
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care.
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Into the most pitiful and abject it will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world, so only it have the countenance of the beloved object.
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A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
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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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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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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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Love should run out to meet love with open arms.
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Think only when you see me, that you see a man who loves you, and is proud and glad that you love him.
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Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every heavy burden light, and equaliseth every inequality.
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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
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Where there is great love there are always miracles.