“If you wish to be loved, love”
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“If you wish to be loved, love”
“Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. ”
“All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.”
“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder”
“Jealous: Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping”
“Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark”
“We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions.”
“I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life ”
“You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long. ”
“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love”
“We are asleep until we fall in love”
“One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry”
“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.”
“In art as in love, instinct is enough”
“There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride”
“If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only”
“I love you not only for what you are, But for what I am when I'm with you. ”
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished”
“Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence””
“What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes”