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Better than I was, more than I am. And all of this happened by taking your hand.
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Better than I was, more than I am. And all of this happened by taking your hand.
Don't forget to fall in love with yourself first.
He suffers from one great literary defect, which is often found in lonely geniuses: he never knows when to stop. Lonely people are apt to fall in love with the sound of their own voice, as Narcissus fell in love with his reflection, not out of conceit but out of despair of finding another who will listen and respond.
No, the love which survives the tomb is one of the noblest attributes of the soul.
If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.
Now, I'm not talking about a sentimental, shallow kind of love. I'm not talking about eros, which is a sort of aesthetic, romantic love. I'm not even talking about philia, which is a sort of intimate affection between personal friends. But I'm talking about agape. I'm talking about the love of God in the hearts of men. I'm talking about a type of love which will cause you to love the person who does the evil deed while hating the deed that the person does. We've got to love.
I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
Find what you love and let it kill you.
We never made love in a bag. People probably imagined that we were making love. It was just, all of us are in a bag, you know. The point was the outline of the bag, you know, the movement of the bag, how much we see of a person, you know. But, inside, there might be a lot going on. Or maybe nothing's going on.
I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, good and bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.