“Love is a serious mental disease.”
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“The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.”
“If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.”
“All you need is love.”
“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.”
“Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”
“Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.”
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
“Love is not consolation. It is light.”
“Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.”
“A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.”
“The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.”
“Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.”
“We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.”
“We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.”
“The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.”
“Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.”
“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.”
“Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.”
“There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.”
“Love can do much, but duty more.”
“I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.”
“No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.”
“There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.”