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060e698
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He stretched out on the bed and was suddenly struck by how utterly lonely he was.
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lonely
love
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Tim LaHaye |
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3e88669
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Y con animo sombrio penso en que aun estaba muy lejos de llegar a algo con una chica si solo pretendia idolatrarla y despues morir noblemente por ella.
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humor
love
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Thomas Brussig |
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534eee4
|
"Catti-brie had to believe that now, recalling the scene in light of the drow's words. She had to believe that her love for Wulfgar had been real, very real, and not misplaced, that he was all she had thought him to be. Now she could. For the first time since Wulfgar's death, Cattie-brie could remember him without pangs of guilt, without the fears that, had he lived, she would not have married him. Because Drizzt was right; Wulfgar would have admitted the error despite his pride, and he would have grown, as he always had before. That was the finest quality of the man, an almost childlike quality, that viewed the world and his own life as getting better, as moving toward a better way in a better place. What followed was the most sincere smile on Cattie-brie's face in many, many months. She felt suddenly free, suddenly complete with her past, reconciled and able to move forward with her life. She looked at the drow, wide-eyed, with a curiosity that seemed to surprise Drizzt. She could go on, but what exactly did that mean? Slowly, Cattie-brie began shaking her head, and Drizzt came to understand that the movement had something to do with him. He lifted a slender hand and brushed some stray hair back from her cheek, his ebony skin contrasting starkly with her light skin, even in the quiet light of night. "I do love you," the drow admitted. The blunt statement did not catch Catti-brie by surprise, not at all. "As you love me," Drizzt went on, easily, confident that his words were on the mark. "And I, too, must look ahead now, must find my place among my friends, beside you, without Wulfgar." "Perhaps in the future," Catti-brie said, her voice barely a whisper. "Perhaps," Drizzt agreed. "But for now..." "Friends," Catti-brie finished. Drizzt moved his hand back from her cheek, held it in the air before her face, and she reached up and clasped it firmly. Friends"
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love
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R.A. Salvatore |
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f657b91
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Hate yearned to destroy and sought to forget, but love could not. Love strove creatively towards days that had yet to come.
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hate
love
|
Richard Wright |
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da40904
|
He was a story at least, even if he never became anything else.
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love
relationships
|
Nick Hornby |
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4fcd2fe
|
"The bride waits here," she said, running her hands along her hair, taking in her image but seeming to drift away. "This is the moment you think about what you're doing. Who you're choosing. Who you will love. If it's right, Eddie, this can be such a wonderful moment." --
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|
love
magic
marriage
reflection
relationship
thoughts
wedding
|
Mitch Albom |
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bafaa01
|
When I said these words, all the heat in my body seemed to rise to my face. I felt I might float up into the air, just like a piece of ash from a fire.
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|
feelings
fire
love
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Arthur Golden |
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e87e368
|
Michael doesn't flinch. 'You can't know,' he says quietly, 'how much you truly love something until it's gone.' 'That's not fair,' I say as I tremble. 'No one said it would be. He tests you, Benji, and he tests Calliel for a supremely simple reason. You are tested because if you aren't, how could you know what you believe in?'
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belief
faith
love
|
T.J. Klune |
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2e7ad77
|
"Anthony watched him, dumbfounded, and then turned to Lucy. "What have you done with Zack's brain?" Lucy stood to follow Zack. "What brain? I don't think he has one. I think he's just one giant exposed nerve ending. I swear sometimes at night, I can hear his neurons snapping like popcorn."
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love
|
Jennifer Crusie |
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b32b8d5
|
Lord, help me to have Your love and forgiveness in my heart. Enable me to live in peace, tranquility, simplicity, and good health. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
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|
heart
love
peace
pray
wholeness
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Stormie Omartian |
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ef32482
|
Meeks was telling him about the value of work. He said that it had been his personal experience that if you wanted to get ahead, you had to work. He said this was the law of life and it was no way to get around it because it was inscribed on the human heart like love thy neighbour. He said these two laws were the team that worked together to make the world go round and that any individual who wanted to be a success and win the pursuit of happiness, that was all he needed to know.
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love
work
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Flannery O'Connor |
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b6ac903
|
"She made a visual inventory of the disaster and confirmed that the girl was curled up like a snail, her head hidden between her arms: terrified but intact. "My God!" Rosa Cabarcas exclaimed. "What I wouldn't have given for a love like this!"
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jealousy
love
|
Gabriel García Márquez |
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ac7c66b
|
The chilling thought occurred to me that breaking up with someone you love to criticize might be the only way to save yourself from becoming unlovable
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humor
love
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Bob Smith |
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16506a8
|
Where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is the junction between those who think and those who suffer; this barricade is made neither of paving stones, nor of timbers, nor of iron; it is made of two mounds, a mound of ideas and a mound of sorrows. Here misery encounters the ideal. Here day embraces night, and says: I will die with you and you will be born again with me. From the heavy embrace of all desolations springs faith. Sufferings bring their agony here, and ideas their immortality. This agony and immortality will mingle and make up our death. Brothers, whoever dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a grave illuminated by the dawn.
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|
death
future
happy-martyrs
love
revolution
|
Victor Hugo |
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b8fb3f8
|
How is it possible to hate something so completely and then suddenly love it so unreasonably?
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hate
love
|
Zadie Smith |
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ee6025b
|
"And here is love like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past its glean in the meal-bin. --"Sunlight"
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love
|
Seamus Heaney |
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194f760
|
I tended to be skeptical of anything that couldn't be measured, written down, and independently verified across a series of double-blind tests. But this was hard data. Lola's heart beat fastest for me.
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love
science
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Max Barry |
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a202347
|
But the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic. There is no adventure I would trade them for; there is no place I would rather have seen. -Thanksgiving in Mongolia, The New Yorker, November 18, 2013 Issue
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loss
love
miscarriage
motherhood
parenthood
|
Ariel Levy |
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e49c8a4
|
Why did everyone like that story so much when it wasn't true? Why was everyone so eager to believe it? Was it because, in real life, ever after's generally stink?
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|
façades
fairytale
fantasy
happy-ever-after
love
made-up
reality
romance
truth
|
Margaret Peterson Haddix |
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ea3e7c6
|
Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.
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|
fighting
jealous
jealousy
love
salman-rushdie
the-satanic-verses
|
Salman Rushdie |
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213bd41
|
But this I have lived five thousand years to learn. Power is as cold as forgotten ashes. Only my love can keep alive the memory of my daughter, the stories of Ray, Arturo, Yaksha, and most of all the grace of Krishna.
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|
christopher-pike
creatures-of-forever
grace
love
memories
power
the-last-vampire
thirst
|
Christopher Pike |
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f5e456f
|
She'll be willing to meet someone who can hold her interest for more than a few months, and that guy will teach her about domestic deepenings, the modest reliable thrill of the familiar, which as almost everyone but Liz knows has been the way of human happiness since humanity was born.
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love
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Michael Cunningham |
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cb64080
|
The spiritual and the physical had been blended in us with a perfection that must remain incomprehensible to the matter-of-fact, crude, standard-brained youngsters of today. Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams.
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loss
love
young-love
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Vladimir Nabokov |
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2b5d175
|
Shakespeare is to me the purest voice of nature, and he does no meddle with nature. His plays provide us with the greatest variety of erotic expression, and with Shakespeare eros is the proper term to use.
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love
shakespeare
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Allan Bloom |
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a0c2338
|
"The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give it away; every man who loves surrenders his freedom, whether his passion be the love of a woman, the love of a cause, or the love of God. . . Hence: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Everyone wants the things that only a love of God will bring to him, but most men today seek them in the wrong places. That is why no one comes to God without a revolution of the spirit; he must stop seeking his good in Godlessness."
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|
godlessness
goodness
love
|
Fulton J. Sheen |
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1bef631
|
It was that wisdom to us when it can no longer do any good
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|
love
old
too-late
wisdom
youth
|
Gabriel García Márquez |
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b6df8ef
|
I have found that sometimes when a person gives up on 'humankind' they can often find trust and love in animal kind. Andre Chevalier
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depression
giving-up
humanity
love
trust
trust-issues
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Nikki Sex |
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0e0fc2a
|
Preguntate que sientes y que te niegas a sentir.
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|
el-juego-de-ripper
feelings
love
ripper
sentimientos
|
Isabel Allende |
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dc77a97
|
I believe his lies, so he believes mine.' She turns and looks at me straight on. 'That's how it goes at the end of love.
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|
lies
love
relationships
|
Paul Murray |
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fcc6e11
|
I think that she is everything I have ever loved about our religion distilled down to fit into one person, everything about the faith that is both selfless and responsible.
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|
love
religion
responsibility
selflessness
|
Ann Patchett |
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38cc531
|
He had slept next to her for thirty-six years, and the mattress felt different without her weight, however slight, and without the rhythm of her breath the dark had no measure. There were times he woke feeling cold from the lack of the heat that once came from between her thighs and behind her knees. He might have even called her, if he could have momentarily forgotten that he already knew everything she could possibly say.
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love
marriage
sleeping-together
|
Nicole Krauss |
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2df9037
|
I'm sweetness an' motherfuckin' light. Filled from goddamn head to toe wit' love.
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|
light
love
sweetness
|
Garth Ennis |
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28200b6
|
Better, I thought, not to touch at all than to touch and bring hurt upon myself and others. Better to do nothing than to make a move and have it be the wrong one. But even deciding to not touch or to be nothing is a decision, Vanyel, and by deciding not to touch, so as to avoid hurt, I then hurt those who tried to touch me.
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|
loss
love
|
Mercedes Lackey |
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a8dc14a
|
The love of minds should last beyond lives.
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|
lives
love
minds
|
Don DeLillo |
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d4aea0b
|
Lavorava per vivere; poi, sempre per vivere, poiche anche il cuore ha fame, amo.
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love
|
Victor Hugo |
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dcd9731
|
I learned that we may meet a true love and that our lives may be transformed by such an encounter even when it does not lead to sexual pleasure, committed bonding, or even sustained contact. The myth of true love-that fairy-tale vision of two souls who meet, join, and live happily ever thereafter-is the stuff of childhood fantasy. Yet many of us, female and male, carry these fantasies into adulthood and are unable to cope with the reality of what it means to either have an intense life-altering connection that will not lead to an ongoing relationship or to be in a relationship. True love does not always lead to happily ever after, and even when it does sustaining love still takes work.
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|
fairy-tales
love
love-at-first-sight
love-is-hard
love-quotes
true-love
|
bell hooks |
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dce2077
|
"So why did he do it?" Cricket rakes a hand through his hair. "For the same reason everyone makes mistake. He fell in love."
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|
lola-and-the-boy-next-door
lola-nolan
love
mistakes
romance
|
Stephanie Perkins |
|
c7741a3
|
"It's my letter," she began. "I cannot make it right." "Come in, come in," the Prince said gently. "Maybe we can help you." She sat down in the same chair as before. "All right, I'll close my eyes and listen; read to me." " 'Westley, my passion, my sweet, my only, my own. Come back, come back. I shall kill myself otherwise. Yours in torment, Buttercup.' " She looked at Humperdinck. "Well? Do you think I'm throwing myself at him?" "It does seem a bit forward," the Prince admitted. "It doesn't leave him a great deal of room to maneuver."
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|
humor
letters
love
melancholy
|
William Goldman |
|
d18b11c
|
But if love is not the cure, it certainly can act as a very strong medicine.
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|
depression
love
mania
mental-health
mental-illness
|
Kay Redfield Jamison |
|
38c9be7
|
If you like someone, you should have to make an effort.
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|
christmas
first-kiss
holiday
life
love
my-true-love-gave-to-me
winter
|
Stephanie Perkins |
|
27e8734
|
The only power she wanted over him was the power to make him happy. . . . She wanted them to be equal in their loving, not master and slave.
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|
love
power
|
Mary Jo Putney |
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a7da334
|
How much misery . . . how much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches, a misalignment of the hormones and pheromones? Resulting in the fact that the one you love so passionately won't or can't love you. As a species we're pathetic in that way: imperfectly monogamous. If we could only pair-bond for life, like gibbons, or else opt for total guilt-free promiscuity, there'd be no more sexual torment. Better plan - make it cyclical and also inevitable, as in the other mammals. You'd never want someone you couldn't have.
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|
love
sex
|
Margaret Atwood |
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a8a7cbc
|
Stay with me always, my sweet, my love . . . my Claire.
|
|
claire
jusin
love
teresa-medeiros
|
Teresa Medeiros |
|
0f10c18
|
Love is a fault; be it so. Fantine was innocence floating upon the surface of this fault.
|
|
les-misérables
love
|
Victor Hugo |
|
ea37cfb
|
And there are the very special people in our lives who have the endless capacity to love us for all of our flaws.
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|
flaws
love
perfect
|
Cecelia Ahern |
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3a4192b
|
"You tormented
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love
|
Federico García Lorca |
|
34f069d
|
...continue to love each other, something I discover is not an automatic state but must be worked at, like an ever-changing tactical problem, though I would never describe it that way to my beloved
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|
love
|
Garth Nix |
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dd665c6
|
For two nights Felicite never left the dead girl. She said the same prayers over and over again, sprinkled holy water on the sheets, then sat down again to watch. At the end of her first vigil, she noticed that the child's face had gone yellow, the lips were turning blue, the nose looked sharper, and the eyes were sunken. She kissed them several times, and would not have been particularly surprised if Virginie had opened them again: to minds like hers the supernatural is a simple matter. She laid her out, wrapped her in a shroud, put her in her coffin, placed a wreath on her, and spread out her hair. It was fair and amazingly long for her age. Felicite cut off a big lock, half of which she slipped into her bosom, resolving never to part with it.
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|
love
superstition
|
Gustave Flaubert |
|
fcf5be3
|
My body rocks as if Isaiah used a defibrillator on my chest. He loves me. His words gain traction in my head...he loves me. My heart patters faster and faster. Not because of anxiety but because of hope. Gathering air into my lungs, I rest my head against his shirt, which is wet with my tears. His heart has a slow, steady beat. One that never panics. One that is always strong.
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|
heart
love
strong
who-i-am
without-you
|
Katie McGarry |
|
e57d1fe
|
My mother clutches at the collar of my shirt. I rub her back and feel her tears on my neck. It's been decades since our bodies have been this close. It's an odd sensation, like a torn ligament knitting itself back, lumpy and imperfect, usable as long as we know not to push it too hard.
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|
divakaruni
immigrant-experience
india
indian-american
love
mothers-and-daughters
novel
novel-in-stories
women-s-books
|
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |
|
4003170
|
"He repeated it carefully, pausing for effect. " 'Love is the only rational act."
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|
careful
effect
love
only
pause
rational
repeat
wise
|
Mitch Albom |
|
c682f6b
|
Half the time he seems autistic, the rest of the time he's like a lizard jacked full of lithium and speed. These things do not promote love in most of us.
|
|
autistic
lithium
lizard
love
politicians
speed
spider-jerusalem
|
Warren Ellis |
|
3192177
|
Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love. Don't be frightened overmuch even at your evil actions. I am sorry I can say nothing more consoling to you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on the stage. But active love is labor and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science.
|
|
love
|
Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
|
46d7df2
|
He was kind, he was single, he was vulnerable, he made her laugh (not always intentionally, true, but often enough). Every time she saw him, he seemed to have become a little more handsome.
|
|
love
|
Nick Hornby |
|
2ea889a
|
I like this marriage thing, because it's the best of all of us. We get to be the whole meal. The appetizer, the entree, the luxurious dessert... And yes, the peas and the carrots.
|
|
love
marriage
|
Cassie Mae |
|
388c5b7
|
I wonder if I'm being disloyal, if being with Didier means I'm forgetting about Jones. But every time I go in a drain, or past a church, I think of him. Every time I see a can of Coke, I think of Jones. And don't even start me on how I feel when I see department-store Santas. A girl doesn't forget a guy like Jones in a big hurry. Even ow, when none of us are front-page news any longer, he's always in my head. My name is Dodie. Doe - as in don't change a thing (well, a couple of things I'd change). Dee - as in delighted to have known you, Sebastian Worthington Jones. Dodie Farnshaw.
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|
dodie
jones
love
|
Gabrielle Williams |
|
fc391a8
|
He was generally aware that he had been blessed in her beauty; even in her usual homespun, knee-deep in mud from her garden, or stained and fierce with the blood of her calling, the curve of her bones spoke to his own marrow, and those whisky eyes could make him drunk with a glance. Besides, the mad collieshangie of her hair made him laugh.
|
|
clairefraser
fierycross
jamiefraser
love
|
Diana Gabaldon |
|
4f734e4
|
"Sounds like that happens to you a lot. Bet your girlfriend wasn't thrilled, though." She wasn't sure why she said it, but it came out before she could think. "Who said I have a girlfriend?" He said, raising his scarred eyebrow. His dark eyes crinkled. "No one," she said. " Well, I don't anymore, if anyone's interested." "Who's interested?" "Are you?" He looked her straight in the eye. "I could ask the same of you," she scoffed. "So what if I was? Interested, I mean." He shrugged. "It wouldn't be a surprise," she said. "I'm sure half the crew has a crush on me."
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|
girlfriend
love
natasha-kestal
ryan-wesson
|
Melissa de la Cruz |
|
375eb56
|
Your love for me does not exist in the real world. Yes, it is love, I do not deny it. But not every love has a course to run, smooth or otherwise, and this love has no course at all . . . But that is remote from love and remote from ordinary life. As real people we do not exist for each other.
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|
figurative-language
impossible-love
iris-murdoch
love
unrequited-love
|
Iris Murdoch |
|
bdedffe
|
On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond of us, and disinclines us to those who are indifferent, and also a good grateful nature, the mere idea that a woman had a kindness towards him spun little threads of tenderness from out his heart towards hers.
|
|
friendship
intimacy
love
|
George Eliot |
|
b21f276
|
Once a partner has begun to lose interest, there is apparently little the other can do to arrest the process. Like seduction, withdrawal suffers under a blanket of reticence. The very breakdown of communication is hard to discuss, unless both parties have a desire to see it restored. This leaves the lover in a desperate situation. Honest dialogue seems to produce only irritation and smothers love in the attempt to revive it. Desperate to woo the partner back at any cost, the lover might at this point be tempted to turn to romantic terrorism, the product of irredeemable situations, a gamut of tricks (sulking, jealousy, guilt) that attempt to force the partner to return love, by blowing up (in fits of tears, rage or otherwise) in front of the loved one. The terroristic partner knows he cannot realistically hope to see his love reciprocated, but the futility of something is not always (in love or in politics) a sufficient argument against it. Certain things are said not because they will be heard, but because it is important to speak.
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|
love
partner
sad
|
Alain de Botton |
|
db6d82a
|
Was there ever a great true love? Anyone who became the object of my obsession and not simply my affections?...I could not let myself become that unmindful. Isn't that what love is - losing your mind? You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally - that's the worst, I think, deficient morals.
|
|
love
morals
|
Amy Tan |
|
de3efa9
|
"What are you doing?" Alecto asked in surprise, stepping back. Laughing brightly, she dragged him towards the greenhouse, the shattered glass reflecting rainbows as brilliant as a million Kodak flashcubes, glittering as they were cascaded through the breeze. "See, don't be afraid of the glass, it can't hurt us," Mandy laughed, spectacularly eccentric, her eyes reflecting the fallen glass. "I wasn't afraid of the glass, but this isn't a very secluded place that you just decided to vandalize," Alecto cautioned, smiling despite his words. Before Mandy could reply, she heard loud whispering in the air, behind the trees... it sounded like a group of people, all whispering in unison... "Somebody's out there," she exclaimed nervously. "Yeah, you're right," Alecto replied. Suddenly a sharp new vibrancy seemed to fill his eyes and he smiled coldly, taking the tree branch from Mandy and rapidly smashing in all of Mrs. Matthias' stained glass house windows with it. Blue, green, yellow, red, turquoise, purple and an array of other colors showered through the sky noisily, sounding like wind chimes and crashing waves. "They'll go away," he told her, glancing up at the sky. "...Alecto, do you like me?" Mandy questioned, holding out her arms like a lopsided scarecrow as the glass fell through her dark red hair. "Yeah, sure," he answered. "Will you be my friend, then? A real friend, not just another person who feels sorry for me?" Mandy asked. "...Alright, Mandy Valems," Alecto agreed."
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|
air
best-friends
blue
canada
cape-breton
children
colored
crashing
cut
depression
flashcube
friend
friends
friendship
fun
funny
glass
glitter
green
greenhouse
growing-up
house
kodak
love
noir
noise
nostalgia
nova-scotia
red
scarecrow
sharp
shatter
smile
sorry
stained-glass
trees
vandalism
vibrancy
waves
whispering
wind-chimes
yellow
|
Rebecca McNutt |
|
26674ac
|
However this child was conceived, God will be the Father. My baby won't enter the world unloved or unwanted. If I can't feel a full measure of joy, I know the Lord will.
|
|
father
love
|
Francine Rivers |
|
0caed43
|
And like that, the decades disappeared and the memory of that night came to life again. The way John had known it would. He didn't fight it, didn't work to stay in the here and now. If he was going to go back, then he wanted to relive it. All of it.
|
|
family
inspirational
love
love-quotes
|
Karen Kingsbury |
|
cec320c
|
"Amphora," he murmured against the wide, sweet curve of her lips. His hands slid over the wide, sweet curve of her hips, cupping smoothness cool and solid, timeless and graceful as the swell of ancient pottery, promising abundance. "Like a Grecian vase. God, you've got the most beautiful arse!" "Jug-butt, huh?"
|
|
arse
ass
butt
diana-gabaldon
drums-of-autumn
grecian
hips
humor
jug
lips
love
outlander
|
Diana Gabaldon |
|
4ed012a
|
"do you love her" Wulfgar asked suddenly, and the drow was off his guard. "Of course I do," Drizzt responded truthfully. "As I love you, and Bruenor, and Regis." "I would not interfere-" Wulfgar started to say, but he was stopped by Drizzt's chuckle. "The choice is neither mine nor yours," the drow explained, "but Catti-brie's. Remember, what you had, my friend, and remember what you, in your foolishness, nearly lost."
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|
friendship
love
|
R.A. Salvatore |
|
de61940
|
I was always moved when mean people were suddenly nice to me. It was a weakness that would lead me into some bad relationships later in life.
|
|
bad
canada
life
love
montréal
pg-76
relationships
thirteen
weakness
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Heather O'Neill |
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a9a470f
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It ended sadly. The kind of ending where you wait together, holding hands and weeping, while off in another room, love slowly dies.
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endings
love
love-hurts
love-quotes
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Abigail Thomas |
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c55b215
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Outside, under the marquee of the hotel, he stood a moment as he did each night beneath the marquee of the Hotel Hyperion, while he decided what direction to take, what to do. And suddenly, realizing it was not the Hotel Hyperion, that the circumstances were quite different, he felt loneliness spring up like a dark forest all around him. The odd thing was, he felt no impulse to hurry after her, to find her somehow. What would he have to offer her except the history of weakness, loneliness, and inadequacy, the decline and fall of himself? He himself was the core of the loneliness around him, and its core was inadequacy. He was inadequate even in love.
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dark
decline
direction
fall
forest
history
hurry
impulse
inadequacy
loneliness
love
offer
weakness
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Patricia Highsmith |
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1fa243d
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When the anesthesia of love wears off, you suffer the pain of consequence.
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heartbreak
love
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Amy Tan |
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b921ee0
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He thought her more beautiful than ever, with a beauty that was at once feminine and angelic, that wholeness of beauty that had moved Petrarch to song and brought Dante to his knees.
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love
romance
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Victor Hugo |
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388a851
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I'd never before been infatuated with someone living, someone real.
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fangirl-humor
first-love
love
puppy-love
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Gail Carson Levine |
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07ec12b
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For most people there is a fascinating inconsistency in the position of St. Francis. He expressed in loftier and bolder language than any earthly thinker the conception that laughter is as divine as tears. He called his monks the mountebanks of God. He never forgot to take pleasure in a bird as it flashed past him, or a drop of water as it fell from his finger; he was perhaps the happiest of the sons of men. Yet this man undoubtedly founded his whole polity on the negation of what we think of the most imperious necessities; in his three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience he denied to himself, and those he loved most, property, love, and liberty. Why was it that the most large-hearted and poetic spirits in that age found their most congenial atmosphere in these awful renunciations? Why did he who loved where all men were blind, seek to blind himself where all men loved? Why was he a monk and not a troubadour? We have a suspicion that if these questions were answered we should suddenly find that much of the enigma of this sullen time of ours was answered also.
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hope
joy
love
saints
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G.K. Chesterton |
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4299a25
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"Why do they lie?" she asked herself aloud. "They say time makes losing someone you loved easier to deal with, but it only makes it worse."
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ask
bereavement
deal
death-dying
death-of-a-friend
death-of-a-loved-one
easy
grief
lie
loss
love
mourning
saying
time
worse
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Rebecca McNutt |
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c92ee80
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it is the responsibility of free men to trust and celebrate what is constant--birth, struggle, and death are constant, and so is love, though we may not always think so--and to apprehend the nature of change, to be able and willing to change.
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death
love
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James Baldwin |
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bdbdf53
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She had never looked as well. She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, an ocean sadder. This one understood the nature of pain, and beneath the glory of her features, there was character, and a sure knowledge of suffering.
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heartbreak
loss
love
melancholy
pain
sorrow
suffering
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William Goldman |
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f7174c3
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She lived in the dream world of unreality, or else she would not admit reality; he did not know. In any case, he loved her as she was. It might never be used, but it would give her pleasure to have it.
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coping
delusion
doom
last-days
love
post-apocalyptic
unreality
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Nevil Shute |
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a9bc24f
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"Well... "why" is a hard question to answer in any language."
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life
love
why
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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c936336
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So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, to your community around you, to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
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devote
important
life
live
love
meaning
purpose
wrong
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Mitch Albom |
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bda738e
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We leave this life the same way that we enter it, totally alone, bereft.
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children
love
marriage
parallel-universes
science
thriller
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Blake Crouch |
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e646ef1
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You are my heart. Even if you are a broken heart
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love
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Philippa Gregory |
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c95749f
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My best friend has warned me to stay away. Violet, a girl raised by the Terror, has warned me to stay away, but even after digesting her advice, knowing the rumors and experiencing what I have, I can't leave. The bandage on Razor's arm and the cuts and bruises along his side testify to how dangerous his life is, but with one long look into those beautiful eyes , I know that I'm a lost cause to logic. I've already fallen in love.
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falling-in-love
first-love
katie-mcgarry
love
romance
young-adult
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Katie McGarry |
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e96f218
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Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory.
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dejah-thoris
john-carter
love
passionate
passionate-love
romance
romantic
sad
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Edgar Rice Burroughs |
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b20f2b1
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"I have a request to make,my lord." He held her gaze; she could see him trying to decide what she might ask, but eventually he surrendered."And that is?" "Take me to your bed."
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emotional
feelings
heart
lord
love
romance
strong-will
surrender
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Stephanie Laurens |
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16f0b08
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He sat down in his chair by the fire and began to chat, as was his habit before he and his wife parted to dress for dinner. When he was out during the day he often looked forward to these chats, and made notes of things he would like to tell his Mary. During her day, which was given to feminine duties and pleasures, she frequently did the same thing. Between seven and eight in the evening they had delightful conversational opportunities. He picked up her book and glanced it over, he asked her a few questions and answered a few...
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communication
courtesy
faithfulness
husband
love
marriage
regard
respect
wife
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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df7e05b
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I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it - I will love you through that, as well. If you don't need the medication, I will love you, too. There's nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.
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life
loneliness
love
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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319bb2e
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An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet or a soap-works. Partnership was a voluntarily constituted federation like any other. So long as it worked, it worked, and if it didn't work it stopped being. It was not an institution but a function. It had no sanction but that of private conscience.
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love
moraily
politics
property
relationships
sci-fi
women
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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a2bce5a
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"He may care for her, though she really has been almost rude to him at times. But she! - why, Margaret would never think of him, I'm sure! Such a thing has never entered her head." "Entering her heart would do."
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love
victorian
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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1ee3893
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Things are not always how they seem.
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christmas
first-kiss
holiday
life
love
my-true-love-gave-to-me
winter
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Stephanie Perkins |
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3c177ff
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Nor did he think of Celia any more, though he could sometimes remember having dreamt of her. If only he had been able to think of her, he would not have needed to dream of her.
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love
regret
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Samuel Beckett |
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cfee359
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He was so close to her then that they owned every molecule of air in the tiny room and the air grew heavy with their desire and worked to move them together.
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desire
love
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Ann Patchett |
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e693ab1
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Iki saatlik yasam iki sayfalik bir yazidan daha iyidir diye emin olmayin. Yazi yoksuldur ama daha temizdir.
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hayat
kafka
kitap
letter
love
mektup
milena
okumak
yazı
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Franz Kafka |
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fe46651
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Es que hasta la alegria que produce la presencia del hombre a quien se ama se siente mejor a solas. Si la presencia fuera de el continua, solo estaria presente en su constante transcurrir. Detenerla solo es posible en los ratos de soledad
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love
soledad
solitude
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Milan Kundera |
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f37131c
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Most folks believe we are hardwired biologically to long for sex but they do not believe we are hardwired to long for love. Almost everyone believes that we can have sex without love; mosr folks do not believe that a couple can have love in a relationship if there is no sex.
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love
relationships
sex
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Bell Hooks |
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383fe53
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A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel. Its instinct is to assume that nothing either for good or evil has happened, and to resist the invader. Once gripped, it feels acutely, and its sensations in love are particularly profound. Given time, it can know and impart ecstasy; given time, it can sink to the heart of Hell.
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lgbt
love
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E.M. Forster |
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2e424ef
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It was a terrible division, to feel such need for someone, and yet angry that need existed.
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friendship
love
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Robin Hobb |
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4f08d8d
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"I told Seven the Bartender that true love is felonious. "Not if they're over eighteen," he said, shutting the till of the cash register. By then the bar itself had become an appendage, a second torso holding up my first. "You take someone's breath away," I stressed. "You rob them of the ability to utter a single word." I tipped the neck of the empty liquor bottle toward him. "You steal a heart." He wiped up in front of me with a dishrag. "Any judge would toss that case out on its ass." "You'd be surprised." Seven spread the rag out on the brass bar to dry. "Sounds like a misdemeanor, if you ask me." I rested my cheek on the cool, damp wood. "No way," I said. "Once you're in, it's for life."
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julia-romano
love
seven-the-bartender
true-love
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Jodi Picoult |
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bd1b0b4
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Most men and women born in the fifties or earlier were socialized to believe that marriages and/or committed romantic bonds of any kind should take precedence over all other relationships. Had I been evaluating my relationships from a standpoint that emphasized growth rather than duty and obligation, I would have understood that abuse irreparably undermines bonds. All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.... Women who would no more tolerate a friendship in which they were emotionally and physically abused stay in romantic relationships where these violations occur regularly. Had they brought to these bonds the same standards they bring to friendship they would not accept victimization.
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bell-hooks
feminism
feminist
friendships-and-love
love
love-quotes
respect
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bell hooks |
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d8a2944
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Mark my words, Alex. You are a man whose future lies before him for all to marvel at one day. And you, Colonel Hamilton, are mine, and I am yours always.
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always
love
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Melissa de la Cruz |
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a421465
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"I spent years," he told me, "studying the phenomenon of love." "And I spend years studying the phenomenon of justice." "At base, we spend years studying the same thing."
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equality
justice
love
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John Howard Griffin |
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3c78923
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"You've obviously never been in love." "I have actually. And . And--always--without hope--I've never had my love reciprocated ever."
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in-love
iris-murdoch
love
painful
sad
the-black-prince
unreciprocated-love
unrequited-love
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Iris Murdoch |
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ff8d1b2
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They sat in the little diningroom and ate. She'd put on music, a violin concerto. The phone didnt ring. Did you take it off the hook? No, she said. Wires must be down. She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then. Do you remember the last time it snowed here? No, I cant say as I do. Do you? Yes I do. When was it. It'll come to you. Oh. She smiled. They ate.
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love
serenity
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Cormac McCarthy |
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3c863e3
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Naw, I say. Mr ____, can tell you, I don't like it at all. What is it to like? He git up on you, heist your nightgown round your waist, plunge in. Most times I pretend I ain't there. He never know the difference. Never ast me how I feel, nothing. Just do his business, get off, go to sleep. She start to laugh. Do his business, she say. Do his business. Why, Miss Celie. You make it sound like he going to the toilet on you. That's what it feel like, I say. She stop laughing.
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direspect
humour
love
rape
relationship
sex
sexual-abuse
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Alice Walker |
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f0d940a
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"Groaning, he gripped his fists in the wild stuff. "Contessa.God, Contessa." She straightened, changing the angle, changing the pleasure. She shook her hair back and undulated. She was a contessa.A princess.No,a queen."
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italian
love
mafia
queen
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Christie Ridgway |
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da9ecac
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"To love somebody is not just a strong feeling -- it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise," writes psychologist Erich Fromm. "If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision?"
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love
marriage
promises
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Ada Calhoun |
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da9bfc8
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L'amore e una faccenda intima strana e piena di contraddizioni, visto che non di rado amiamo qualcuno solo perche amiamo noi stessi, per egoismo, avidita, desiderio fisico, brama di dominare l'oggetto d'amore e asservirlo; o al contrario, per desiderio di asservirci e essere dominati dal nostro amante, e in fondo l'amore assomiglia all'odio e gli e piu prossimo di quanto non si pensi normalmente.
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jewish
love
love-and-hate
love-hurts
love-quotes
philosophical
philosophy
philosophy-of-life
religion
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Amos Oz |
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50c9c70
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I did not know, until then, that you could disappear into someone's gaze, that bone and heart and breath could melt like shadow into light, until only light was left.
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love
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Patricia A. McKillip |
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e107e02
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"If this were a different time, a different place, I would take you to bed with me and make love to you for days," he said, his voice slow and deep and intent. "I would use my mouth on you, until no part of your skin went untouched, and I would make you come, over and over again until you could stand no more, and then I'd let you sleep in my arms until you were rested and then I would start all over again. I would kiss your wounds, I would drink your tears, I could make love to you in ways that haven't even been invented yet. I would make love to you in fields of flowers and under starry skies, where there is no death or pain or sorrow. I would show you things you haven't even dreamed of, and there would be no one in the world but you and me, between your legs, in your mouth, everywhere." She stared at him, eyes wide. "Breathe," he said softly, with a self-deprecating smile, and she realized she'd been holding her breath."
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love
romance
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Anne Stuart |
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ad256da
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Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one 'object' of love. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
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humanism
love
relationship
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Erich Fromm |
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b49ac56
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Love is the mistery between two people, not the identity. We were at the opposite poles of humanity. Lily was humanity bound to duty, unable to choose, suffering, at the mercy of social ideals. Humanity both crucified and marching towards the cross. And I was free, I was Peter three times to renounce -- determined to survive, whatever the cost.
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humanity
love
opposites
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John Fowles |
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cff571a
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For here you were, Big James, named for me--you were a big baby, I was not--here you were, to be loved. To be loved, baby, hard, at once, and forever, to strengthen you against the loveless world.
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black-history
love
loveless
strength
world
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James Baldwin |
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76cf413
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But recalling how my ex had nasty BO after track practice never made me feel better. It seemed disingenuous to hold things against him that before I readily accepted as the price of love.
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love
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Daria Snadowsky |
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1fdaf2d
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His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping degrees, his human hand lifted. He turned it over, showing a bloody palm. His cracked lips moved. Beloved. He could not say the word, but I knew it. So did his Fool.
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death
fitz
fool
love
nighteyes
sorrow
together
whole
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Robin Hobb |
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7ab6a75
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He raised himself above her pallid face and kissed her on both closed eyes and thought: she thinks she is taking and does not know that she is giving; in her loneliness she has fled to me and does not suspect my loneliness.
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love
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Hermann Hesse |
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117aa01
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He plainly perceived this truth, the basis of his life henceforth, that so long as she should be alive, so long as he should have her with him, he should need nothing except for her, and fear nothing save on her account.
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love
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Victor Hugo |
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0da2aa2
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Why had this good-looking moll chosen this effeminate buffoon, they all wanted to know. But Jimmy understood why immediately. Because he allowed her to be free.
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love
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Heather O'Neill |
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5c072e4
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The moment when mortality, ephemerality, uncertainty, suffering, or the possibility of change arrives can split a life in two. Facts and ideas we might have heard a thousand times assume a vivid, urgent, felt reality. We knew them then, but they matter now. They are like guests that suddenly speak up and make demands upon us; sometimes they appear as guides, sometimes they just wreck what came before or shove us out the door. We answer them, when we answer, with how we lead our lives. Sometimes what begins as bad news prompts the true path of a life, a disruptive visitor that might be thanked only later. Most of us don't change until we have to, and crisis is often what obliges us to do so. Crises are often resolved only through anew identity and new purpose, whether it's that of a nation or a single human being.
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crisis
identity
love
mortality
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Rebecca Solnit |
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01dccdf
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In the Mars-and-Venus-gendered universe, men want power and women want emotional attachment and connection. On this planet nobody really has the opportunity to know love since it is power and not love that is the order of the day. The privilege of power is at the heart of patriarchal thinking. Girls and boys, men and women who have been taught this way almost always believe love is not important, or if it is, it is never as important as being powerful, dominant, in control, on top-being right. Women who give seemingly selfless adoration and care to the men in their lives appear to be obsessed with 'love,' but in actuality their actions are often a covert way to hold power. Like their male counterparts, they enter relationships speaking the words of love even as their actions indicate that maintaining power and control is their primary agenda.
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affection
bell-hooks
control
feminism
feminist
gender
love
love-quotes
manipulation
mars
men-are-from-mars
power
romance
venus
women-are-from-venus
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bell hooks |
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5be7492
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I took one look at his composed face and know he doesn't understand, because if he did understand, he would be weeping, too, for this boy who loved a world that never loved him.
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love
sad
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Marta Acosta |
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743990e
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La sua vita era ancora troppo breve, per sapere che non c'e cosa piu imminente dell'impossibile, e che quanto dobbiamo sempre prevedere e l'imprevisto.
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life
love
unexpected
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Victor Hugo |
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66f75f9
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"ysh`r lkthyrwn 'n llh kmn fy mkn sry ytSyd lhm l'khT. w'nhm Hlm ykhTy'wn fn s`dth tktml whw ySrkh lhm bzhw: "h qd 'wq`t bk".w'nh mntZr lysqTw fyqwl lhm:"'lm 'ql lk". nhm ynZrwn ly llh wk'nh lky'n lkwny ldhy ytSf blsdy@ wlnkd. wldhy ystmt` b'n yfshl khTTn. wdy'man m yjd lTrq lty yntqdn bh, wywjh bh lthmt ln.wyntqm mn. wlkn llh nfsh yqwl: "l'ny `rft l'fkr lty 'n mftkr bh `nkm, yqwl lrb, 'fkr slm l shr, l'`Tykm akhr@ wrj." (rmy 29:11) l ywjd mn yryd l'fDl wl'SlH lk 'kthr mn llh. l 'Hd y`lm m hw l'fDl lk. wlys hnk mn yj`lk ttmt` bls`d@ lHqyqy@ 'kthr mnh. llh l yrydk 'n tkhf mnh.nh yrydk 'n tsr` lyh, l 'n thrb mnh. fy lwq` ydhkr ln lktb lmqds 365 mr@ 'n llh yqwl :"l tkhf". wHd@ lkl ywm mn 'ym lsn@. fm ldhy tkhf mnh? l 'Hd mn y`rf m ldhy sywjhh khll l`m. lkn ymknn 'n n`rf 'n llh yHbn, w'n llh m`n, w'n llh ln ('y fy Sfn) . n lwHd mn mDfan ly llh ySbH Glby@ fy mwqf. fmn 'yn dhn ynb` khwfn mn llh? hnk mSdrn 'ssyn Dmyr mdhnb, wjhl bTby`@ llh. yqwl lktb lmqds : " l khwf fy lmHb@, bl lmHb@ lkml@ tTrH lkhwf l~ khrj l'n lkhwf lh `dhb. w'm mn khf flm ytkml fy lmHb@" (ywHn l'wly4:18) ldhnb yj`ln nsh`r b`dm l'mn."
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أمان
ذنب
guilt
خوف
love
محبة
safety
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Rick Warren |
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6fb0648
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Wisely, Baldwin insisted that we are always more than our pain. Not only did he believe in our capacity to love, he felt black people were uniquely situated to risk loving because we had suffered.
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james-baldwin
love
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bell hooks |
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6703150
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I wonder if perfume could set a man drunk.
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kilmeny-of-the-orchard
l-m-montgomery
love
perfume
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L M Montgomery |
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684f41b
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I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved me! He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us!
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love
revelation
sorrow
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Robin Hobb |
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0236c5e
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The act was an exorcism of relief for Florentino Ariza, for when he put the violin back into its case and walked down the dead streets without looking back, he no longer felt that he was leaving the next morning but that he had gone away many years before with the irrevocable determination never to return.
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love
sadness
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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8f45b5e
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"They say, the sun brings life to the world. The sun will rise and look is it not a corpse? Everything is dead and there are corpses everywhere. Just people and around them silence__that is the world! "Love one another"__who said that? Whose command is that? The pendulum swings unfeelingly, antagonistically. It's two o'clock at night. Her slippers are standing by her bed, as if waiting for her.... No, seriously, when they take her away tomorrow, what shall I do?"
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death-of-a-loved-one
life-lessons
love
regret
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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15e2368
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His heart and mine added a rhythm all their own. We turned and turned, and with every turning we breathed a little more quickly and held on a little more tightly, and when we came back to the place we started, we stopped dancing and stood with our arms around each other, holding on as if we would never let go, not if the sky fell and the whole world came to an end.
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love
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Juliet Marillier |
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7a54afa
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Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the right ones? Or, to tip it another way: how can I see clearly that everything I love or care about is illusion, and yet - for me, anyway - all that's worth living for lies in that charm A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don't get to choose our own hearts. We can't make ourselves want what's good for us or what's good for other people. We don't get to choose the people we are.
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life
lonliness
love
path
people
questions
reality-of-life
sadness
self
understanding
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Donna Tartt |
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5b5a2aa
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When she had thus for a while struck the flint on her heart without getting a spark, incapable, moreover, of understanding what she did not experience as of believing anything that did not present itself in conventional forms she persuaded herself without difficulty that Charles's passion was nothing very exorbitant.
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lack-of-love
love
restlessness
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Gustave Flaubert |
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I had deluded myself throughout by the idea of reviving a secret love which did not exist at all.
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iris-murdoch
love
secret-love
the-sea-the-sea
unrequited-love
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Iris Murdoch |
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"What about you, Snipes?" Dunbar asked. "You think there to be mountain lions up here or is it just folks' imaginings?" Snipes pondered the question a few moments before speaking. They's many a man of science would claim there aint because you got no irredeemable evidence like panther scat or fur or tooth or tail. In other words, some part of the animal in questions. Or better yet having the actual critter itself, the whole think kit and caboodle head to tail, which all your men of science argue is the best proof of all a thing exists, whether it be a panther, or a bird, or even a dinosaur." To put it another way, if you was to stub your toe and tell the man of science what happened he'd not believe a word of it less he could see how it'd stoved up or was bleeding. But your philosophers and theologians and such say there's things in the world that's every bit as real even though you can't see them." Like what?" Dunbar asked. Well," Snipes said. "They's love, that's one. And courage. You can't see neither of them, but they're real. And air, of course. That's one of your most important examples. You wouldn't be alive a minute if there wasn't air, but nobody's ever seen a single speck of it."
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courage
darkness
faith
love
philosophy
science
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Ron Rash |
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I was very invested in love but it was just this long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's about getting off.
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illusion
investment
love
moment
relationship
sex
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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"Equality today means "sameness" rather than "oneness"." --
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love
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Erich Fromm |
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I know he is afraid of that desert which would be around him if our love were to end, but he can't realize that I feel exactly the same. What he says aloud I say to myself silently and write it here. What can one build in the desert? Sometimes after a day when we have made love many times, I wonder whether it isn't possible to come to an end of sex, and I know that he is wondering too and is afraid of that point where the desert begins. What do we do in the desert if we lose each other? How does one go on living after that?
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love
love-ending
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Graham Greene |
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I had grazed along the surface of her actions and made deep judgments. Rejecting someone because you couldn't understand their love, that was a new one. The more I thought about it the longer the shadow of doubt stretched over all my conclusions. More often than not, things were as they seemed. But as I stared at her, she wasn't as bad looking as I had once thought. I realized how all this time I had seen her the wrong way, and how one's character affects one's appearance. Although she wasn't my type she was attractive. As I thought about her - the vulnerable intelligence, the violent honesty, and the fact that in the entire city she was the only one who took me in and fed me - she became more and more irresistible. Baited by an obscure beauty, trapped by an intense sorrow - all prior definitions had been overruled: this was love.
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love
new-york-city
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Arthur Nersesian |
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Milena lutfen bana yardim edin! Soyleyebildiklerimden daha da fazlasini anlamaya calisin.
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kafka
letter
love
milena
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Franz Kafka |
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Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang'd the Place of Friend for that unmusical harsh-sounding Title of Whore.
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innocence
love
sexuality
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Daniel Defoe |
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After having been standing by the gate of the garden for a long time, Siddhartha realised that his desire was foolish, which had made him go up to this place, that he could not help his son, that he was not allowed to cling him. Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time that this wound had not been given to him in order to turn the knife in it, that it had to become a blossom and had to shine.
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love
parenthood
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Hermann Hesse |
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I stare down into her eyes, smoky and glistening in the light stealing through the window. Eyes you can fall into and keep falling. She isn't the mother of my son, she isn't my wife, we haven't made a life together, but I love her all the same, and not jsut the version of Daniela that exists in my head, in my history. I love the physical woman underneath me in this bed here and now, wherever this is, because it's the same arrangement of matter--same eyes, same voice, same smell, same taste... It isn't married-people lovemaking that follows. We have fumbling, groping, backseat-of-the-car, unprotected-because-who-gives-a-fuck, protons-smashing-together sex.
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love
mate
partner
sex
wife
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Blake Crouch |
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It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch.
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clever
dark
embarrass
embarrassment
father
impatience
impatient
late
love
mediocrity
men
mother
mysterious
mystery
ordinary
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Daphne du Maurier |
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The way you remember or dream about your loved ones - the ones who are gone - you can't stop their endings from jumping ahead of the rest of their stories. You don't get to choose the chronology of what you dream, or the order of events in which you remember someone. In your mind - in your dreams, in your memories - sometimes the story begins with the epilogue.
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death
end
family
friends
inspiration
life
love
memories
memory
nostalgia
relationships
thoughts
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John Irving |
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The same virtues, in the end, the same virtue (love), are required throughout, and fantasy (self) can prevent us from seeing a blade of grass just as it can prevent us from seeing another person. An increasing awareness of 'goods' and the attempt (usually only partially successful) to attend to them purely, without self, brings with it an increasing awareness of the unity and interdependence of the moral world. One-seeking intelligence is the image of faith.
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fantasy
good
illusion
intellect
love
self
unity
vision
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Iris Murdoch |
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904d41b
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And he glanced down at Mercy beside him, and saw in her face such radiant goodness, such a calm certainty, that it seemed to him that if he could only be with her all his life, he should know a love, and happiness, and peace that he had never known before.
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everlasting-love
lasting-love
love
true-love
unconditional
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Edward Rutherfurd |