"On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself."
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"So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice."
"Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so."
"Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?"
"Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food."
"Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value."
"Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival."
"I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly."
"Books are the best type of the influence of the past."
"From the dark end of the street - To the bright side of the road - We'll be lovers once again on the - Bright side of the road"
"Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free."
"I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession."
"When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers."
"Love is the grandest thing on God's earth, but fortunate the lover who has plenty of money."
"A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed."
"Sit with lovers and choose their state. Do not stay long with those who are not living in the heart."
"When lovers of life get ready to dance, the earth shakes and the sky trembles."
"The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love."
"Only love itself can explain love and lovers."
"Lovers don't meet in the end, they are in each other forever."