"O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease."
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"War, like children's fights, are meaningless, pitiless, and contemptible."
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"I am a child whose teacher is LOVE surely my master won't let me grow to be a fool."
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"Awake asleep ought to be with us - So he may see dreams in wakefulness."
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"And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn't matter. We have fallen into the place where everything is music."
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"What I had thought of before as God, I met today in a human being."
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"Any one in love will have no religion."
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"I am so small I can hardly be seen. How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things."
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"You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free."
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"Words can fertilize space now and then; don't deny yourself becoming enriched."
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"Let the Beloved be a hat pulled down firmly on my head."
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"The kitchen of the body darkens the lives of lovers. Fasting came to enlighten them."
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"Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river."
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"We were green: we ripened and grew golden. The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown. Squat and earthbound, we unfolded huge wings. We started sober: are love's startled drunkards. You hide me in your cloak of nothingness Reflect my ghost in your glass of being I am nothing, yet appear: transparent dream Where your eternity briefly trembles."
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"How far is the light of the moon from the moon? How far is the taste of candy from the lip?"
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"What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive."
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"There is a window between heart and heart: They are never separate like two bodies. Two lamps may not be united in their form - But their light merges into each other."
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"Empathy is even better than talking in one language"
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"Those loves which are for the sake of a colour are not love. In the end they are a disgrace."
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"My beloved grows right out of my own heart. How much more union can there be."
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