"What force is more potent than love?"

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"Salvation is neither human effort nor desire."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"Love and attraction is the magnetic language of the heart."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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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."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"When you find love you will know. It will be the one thing worth waiting for."

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"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."

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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"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it."

Music

"The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament."

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"The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution."

Execution

"Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it."

Music

"The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do."

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"To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also."

Effort

"I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust."

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"Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?"

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"What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators."

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"I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity."

Truth