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If I know what love is, it is because of you.

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At Night on the High SeasAt night, when the sea cradles meAnd the pale star gleamLies down on its broad waves,Then I free myself whollyFrom all activi...more

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Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

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All the girls I had ever loved were mine. Each gave me what she alone had to give and to each I gave what she alone knew how to take.

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Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

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It was shameless how life made fun of one; it was a joke, a cause for weeping! Either one lived and let one's senses play, drank full at the primitive...more

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Love of God," he said slowly, searching for words, "is not alwaysthe same as love of good, I wish it were that simple. We know whatis good, it is writ...more

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You were too lazy to learn to dance until it was almost too late, and in the same way you were too lazy to learn to love. As for ideal and tragic love...more

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For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even mo...more

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You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

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Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and ...more

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She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to him, and...more

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There had been a quarrel, she had been hurt, had wept. Now it was over; now she sat still and waited. Life would go on. As with children. As with anim...more

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For one scant day he had loved himself, felt himself to be unified and whole, not split into hostile parts; he had loved himself and the world and God...more

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He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as a...more