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Love Quotes


"When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be."


"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get."



"I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them."


"Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom."


"Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks."


"I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up."


"Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us."


"The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead."


"Well that's actually happened to me a couple of times... but I really think that men, when it comes to falling in love, are less... I guess you could say less aggressive."


"You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there."


"Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love."



"We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love."


"I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold."


"We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine."


"I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music."



"Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up."


"Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way."


"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."


"All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!"


"Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be."


"I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love."
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