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The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.
The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.
Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.
Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.
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.
Love is like water; We can fall in it. We can drown in it. And we can't live with out read more
Love is like water; We can fall in it. We can drown in it. And we can't live with out it.
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which read more
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
