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Teach only love for that is what you are.
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
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Love is a great beautifier.
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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.
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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
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Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.
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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.
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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.
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We must love one another or die.
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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.
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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Love, and do what you like.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.
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Real love stories never have endings.
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For 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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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.
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Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.
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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Love is the river of life in the world.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
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Honor the ocean of love.
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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.
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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.
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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]
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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]
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For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]
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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]
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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]
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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]
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Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings.
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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]
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Love is the fulfilling of the Law.
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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]
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There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear.
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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]
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A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.
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Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.
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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
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The only victory over love is flight.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.
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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.
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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.
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