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"I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe."
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"Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love."

"Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions."

"It is a great joy to love and be loved."
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"That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front."

"I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow."

"The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved."

"If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy."

"Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance."

"It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all."

"My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together."

"For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own."
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