"Love is a severe mental disorder."
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"No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, This is what is expected of you. But... I'm lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role... I love being with people."
"And love is love, in beggars and in kings."
"I would say love is something everybody talks about, and the need for love is one of the most basic needs of man, namely the experience of union with another being - of becoming one with another being."
"I'll place my love beneath the stars."
"Love is the first lie; wisdom the last."
"Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss."
"Love is hard to offend and quick to forgive. How easily do you get irritated and offended? Some people live by the motto, “Never pass up an opportunity to get upset with your spouse.” When something goes wrong, they quickly take full advantage of it by expressing how hurt or frustrated they are. But this is the opposite reaction of love."
"Love is a helium-based emotion; Love always takes the high road."
"Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove."
"Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse."
"Charity is love; not all love is charity."
"The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him."
"Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite terror touched you at the bone? And you are afraid, terribly afraid the smallest movement, a leaf, say, turning in the wind, will shatter all? That is, I think, the way love is, or should be: one lives in beautiful terror."
"Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. the lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glance of the lover’s inward eyes."
"Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts."
"Love is what still goes on when you're not horny."
"Love is hope. Hope is nectar."
"Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love the verb."
"I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes."