"Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret."

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"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."

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Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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"When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."

"Let your love be the light of your life. Now enlighten the whole world with the brightness of that light."

"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."

"I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult."

"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."

"How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste."

"Love is the key to all human hearts."

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"Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude."

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"That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library."