"Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears."
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"it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom."
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"I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive."
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"To be honest, I think love is complete bullshit. I don't think anyone ever loves anyone. I think the best people ever get is horny; horny and scared, so when they find someone who makes them horny, and they get too scared of the world outside, they stay together and they call it love."
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"When we are in love, our love is too big a thing for us to be able altogether to contain it within ourselves. It radiates towards the loved one, finds there a surface which arrests it, forcing it to return to its starting-point, and it is this repercussion of our own feeling which we call the other's feelings and which charms us more then than on its outward journey because we do not recognise it as having originated in ourselves."
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"If he were less well trained, and less careful, he would say hate. But he can’t say it; it is too close to passion, and passion is too close to love, and love is amor deliria nervosa, the deadliest of all deadly things: It is the reason for the games of pretend, for the secret selves, for the spasms in the throat."
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"Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way."
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"The reason we might lose love is because we are always looking outside of us, thinking that the object or action of love is out there. That is why we allow the love, the harmony, the mature understanding, to slip away from ourselves."
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"The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy æther knoweth what love is." The Universe, too, loves to create whatsoever is destined to be made."
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"When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity."
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"I have known know many therapists who come out of Pacifica Graduate Institute and love being both artists and therapists at the same time, like Maureen Murdock. They are photographers and dancers and other kinds of things and therapists at the same time. I think it really makes them a much more interesting therapist because they're so engaged with the imagination and the creativity and the depths of who they are."
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"Love is the spirit of life, and makes all things live."
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"The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'"
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"Love is a fan club with only two fans."
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"Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery"
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"Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused."
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"Love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty."
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"Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames."
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"Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast."
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"The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing"
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