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Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.

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Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?

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This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever lo...more

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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is clos...more

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Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

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You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it neverRises from the soul, and swaysThe heart of every single hearer,With deepest power, in simple ways.You’ll s...more

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Grant me one hour on love’s most sacred shoresTo clasp the bosom that my soul adores,Lie heart to heart and merge my soul with yours.

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Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these.

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Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when heated and exhausted by a long course, in order to br...more

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When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you call that weakness? The ma...more

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And when I look around the apartment where I now am,—when I see Charlotte’s apparel lying before me, and Albert’s writings, and all those articles of ...more

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I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.

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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

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When I go out by the gateway, taking the road I drove along that first time I picked up Lotte for the ball, how very different it all is! It is all ov...more