Love and desire are two different things; not everything that is loved is desired, and not everything that is desired is loved.
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Love and desire are two different things; not everything that is loved is desired, and not everything that is desired is loved.
Where there was once lucky enough to love intensely, spend their lives searching for new light.
She who has never loved has never lived.
Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man's last romance.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation.