The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.
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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third read more
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together.
Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together.
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving read more
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
Love is a kind of military service.
Love is a kind of military service.
Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? -Confucius.
Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? -Confucius.
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.
Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.
