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The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
Winter nights were made for warm snuggles and warmer hearts.
Winter nights were made for warm snuggles and warmer hearts.
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes read more
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to read more
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance read more
As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, read more
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.
