"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."
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"The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world"
"No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy."
"The lover never despairs. For a committed heart everything is possible."
"There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them."
"Virgos are very faithful. I'm a faithful friend. I'm a faithful lover."
"Every lover is a soldier."
"I am a lover for sure. I love to be loved."
"I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me."
"My definition of God: God is not only the alpha, the omega, he is friend, he's a confidant, he is a buddy. He is a lover of my soul. That's my definition of God."
"Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder."
"Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that And manage it against despairing thoughts."
"Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there's no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet"
"A true Lover is proved such by his pain of Heart! No sickness is there like sickness of Heart!!!"
"She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was."
"The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule"
"Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more."
"The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi."
"The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge."
"What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate."