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You never find yourself until you face the truth.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual read more
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us.
We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us.
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in read more
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other read more
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..
The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..
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.
