Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic? |

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love. |

You might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant. |

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. (...) I love you for the part of me that you bring out. |

You're something between a dream and a miracle. |

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. |

No one is afraid of heights, they're afraid of falling down. No one is afraid of saying I love you, they're afraid of the answer... |

Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. |

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it. |

When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself. |

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free. |

To understand all is to forgive all. |

Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,
And I shall see that still the skies are blue,
And feel one more I do not live in vain,
Although bereft of you.

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There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. |

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it. |

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. |

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. |

She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side by side, linked it may be, but not mingled, and that each one's inmost being must go through life eternally alone. |

A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one. |

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living. |

The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along. |

Love is the mystery of water and a star. |

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us. |

Love is so short, forgetting is so long. |