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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
Carve your name in hearts, not marble.
Carve your name in hearts, not marble.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, read more
An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
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.
Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job v.7.
Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job v.7.
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn read more
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
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.
