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Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
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Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up a whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends'or 'how very perceptivè turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love.
Before Yoko and I met, we were half a person. You know there's an old myth about people being half and the other half being in the sky, or in heaven or on the other side of the universe or a mirror image. But we are two halves, and together we're a whole.
Blood doubly unites us, for we share the same blood and we have spilled blood.
One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.
Love has to be flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you got two new people. Maybe that means: hell, it's complicated.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
You are the one I want and what I want is so unreal.
We've broken down a few barriers between us, which we had to do because we had two big egos, two individual artists - and with love we overcame that.