“What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?”
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“What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?”
“Love is energy of life.”
“Love and friendship exclude each other”
“At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone”
“We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together”
“All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene”
“True love is the parent of humility”
“Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall”
“Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”
“Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.”
“Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all”
“Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances”
“Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair”
“Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself”
“Don't forget to love yourself.”
““I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.”
“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”
“My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains, my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk”
“I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman, they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence”
“Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect”