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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

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One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...

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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

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Love them that hate you, but you can't love them whom you hate.

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And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

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I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

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In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had b...more

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He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick an...more

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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

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How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her loving him, now felt unhappy because she love...more

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Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be.

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Love them that hate you, but you can't love those you hate.

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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

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And where love ends, hate begins

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If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.