“The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way”
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“The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way”
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. ”
“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”
“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. ”
“Thou art to me a delicious torment”
“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain”
“You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest ”
“Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage”
“O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, -- the first fluttering of its silken wings. ”
“What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose”
“All mankind love a lover”
“Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough”
“O tell her, life is brief but love is long. ”
“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love ”
“In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love”
“Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened”
“To love beauty is to see light ”
“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies ”
“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand”
“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back ”