This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
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Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.
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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they ...
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A promise to love someone forever, then, means, 'As long as I love you I will render unto you the actions of love; if I no longer love you, you will c...
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Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
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Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
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A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up."―Epigrams and Interludes, Section 79
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love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavali...
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With hard men intimacy is a thing of shame- and something precious.
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Love's cruel notion. - Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killingthe object of that love, so that he may be removed once and for all fr...
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Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman ...
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Love, too, has to be learned.
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Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desire of two people for each other gives way to a new ...
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Psychology has falsified love as surrender and altruism, while it is an appropriation or a bestowal following from a super-abundance of personality. O...
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Sometimes, you have to love beyond yourself! And that's how you learn to love! That's why you had to drink the bitter glass of your love.
