"I cannot promise very much.
I give you the images I know.
Lie still with me and watch.
We laugh and we touch.
I promise you love.
Time will not take that away."
Anne Sexton
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"Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolescence ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite terror touched you at the bone? And you are afraid, terribly afraid the smallest movement, a leaf, say, turning in the wind, will shatter all? That is, I think, the way love is, or should be: one lives in beautiful terror."
Truman Capote, Too Brief a Treat
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"Probably every lover imagines that his own love is pure, and that others love like beasts."
Hugh of Saint Victor, The Didascalicon of Hugh of Saint Victor: A Medieval Guide to the Arts
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"It’s strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words."
T. S. Eliot
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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
Anaïs Nin
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"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."
Thomas Merton
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"Fortunately for men, women in love are always blinded by their feelings and never know anything of life. Far from not assenting, they actually turn pale with holy awe, are full of reverence and hang greedily on the maniac’s words."
Chekhov, Love
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"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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"Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past."
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
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"What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?"
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"I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love."
Françoise Sagan
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