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Quotes about love
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“What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?”
“I love those who do not know how to live for today.”
“This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.”
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
“Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.”
“Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.”
“May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!”
“Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.”
“Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.”
“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.”
“The love of economy is the root of all virtue.”
“To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.”
“The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.”
“Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.”
“To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.”
“I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.”
“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
“It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.”
“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.”
“Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.”
“You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.”
“Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.”
“If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.”