The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined read more

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.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one read more

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and read more

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

It's love, it's love that makes the world go round.

It's love, it's love that makes the world go round.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to read more

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted read more

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

Stars lead me up to heaven, and I hope I'm there with you, for you are a star in my read more

Stars lead me up to heaven, and I hope I'm there with you, for you are a star in my twinkling eyes.

If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every read more

If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.

You can always get someone to love you, even if you have to do it yourself.

You can always get someone to love you, even if you have to do it yourself.