"To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness."
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"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved."
"The death of a beloved is an amputation."
"The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love."
"Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person."
"Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved."
"Anything dead coming back to life hurts."
"Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives."
"What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved?"
"I passed by the brothel as though past the house of a beloved."
"Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved."
"Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me."
"Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved."
"Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined."
"Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something?"
"The Grail is the womb of the beloved."
"God is to be worshiped as the one Beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life."
"If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved."
"If ever thou shalt love, In the sweet pangs of it remember me; For such as I am all true lovers are, Unstaid and skittish in all motions else Save in the constant image of the creature That is beloved."
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