Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's read more

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

I seek for one as fair and gay,
But find none to remind me,
How blest the read more

I seek for one as fair and gay,
But find none to remind me,
How blest the hours pass'd away
With the girl I left behind me.

If things on earth may be to heaven resembled,
It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.

If things on earth may be to heaven resembled,
It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over read more

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.