Frida Kahlo
Painter
"Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit."
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Lovers
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Pythagoras
Philosopher, Mathematician
"So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full."
Ovid
Poet
"Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound."
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"A room without books is like a life without meaning."
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"All the particles of the World are in Love and looking for Lovers."
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"The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full."
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"Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships"
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"Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty."
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"Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God"
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"True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person."
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"Love is never any better than the lover."
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"Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends."
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"Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel."
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"LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity. Other desires are substitutes for that way of being."
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"Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends."
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"A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind."
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"Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced."
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"I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions."
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"Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever."
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"The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness."
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"I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children."
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"The only way to measure a lover is by the grandeur of the beloved."
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"Lovers remember everything. [Lat., Meminerunt omnia amantes.]"
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