"Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance."
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"Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders."
"No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives."
"Love is the piety of the affections."
"Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far as it recalls a beloved object to one's memory, and makes one feel one's love for the thing, whose absence gives us pain. Consequently, since love is pleasant, both pain and whatever else results from love, in so far as they remind us of our love, are pleasant."
"The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes."
"One of the things that's crucial to me about love is that it has to be in the moment."
"Love is not a promissory note."
"In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that laced up at the front. But then I smartened up."
"I have a woman who teaches me what love is every day. Maybe that sentiment is possible to fake, but for me it's really true."
"Love is the ultimate outlaw."
"Eighty percent of love is smell."
"Dreamily the Princess stood up. "I'm not sure if I can walk," she said. "Then I'll carry you." "Is that what love is?" "I no longer know what love is. A week ago I had a lot of ideas. What love is and how to make it stay. Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject."
"Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it's a costly mistake to spread it too thin."
"I love being around people who love to do what I love to do, which is comedy."
"Love is divine only and difficult always."
"All life-changing love is inconvenient."
"It was in D.C., and I couldn't believe how they were just three guys, but they sounded like six guys. It was amazing. I got spoiled, because that was my first concert. I wish in retrospect I had seen someone like Air Supply, and then my expectations could keep rising. Nothing against Air Supply. "I'm All Out Of Love" is still a classic."
"A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend."
"People claim that love is the deepest feeling, but don't you believe it. Loneliness is the most affecting of human emotions. Nothing makes life more vivid. If you wish to live in the moment, I recommend intense loneliness."