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"Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition."
"Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there."
"To a child, 'love' is spelled T-I-M-E."
"Love, I find, is like singing."
"One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back."
"Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one."
"Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it."
"All love is vanquished by a succeeding love."
"Love is not a maybe thing, you know when you love someone."
"One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond of obligation that these miserable creatures break whenever it suits them to do so; but fear holds them fast by a dread of punishment that never passes."
"Love is the smallest part of gallantry."
"Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills."
"Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same."
"Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all."
"Love is found when you don't have to give it. It is the emotion of generosity and kindness that is compelled by no one. It is performed on the battlefield, in our daily tasks, in the marketplace, the factories, at school, in the offices, and in the halls and corridors of government.... But only when one truly gives of himself and without compulsion."
"True love is but a humble, low born thing, And hath its food served up in earthenware; It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand, Through the every-dayness of this workday world."
"Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn"
"Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind."
"My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall."
"Love is keeping the promise anyway."
