Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of unconditional love, even in the face of pain and difficulty.
In this poignant quote, Charles Dickens articulates the idea that love should persist despite challenges and emotional turmoil. He urges the lover to continue expressing love, no matter how hurtful the experience may be, highlighting the resilience of love as a powerful and necessary force in our lives. This message reinforces the idea that true love is unwavering and can endure trials, ultimately fostering deeper emotional growth.
In practice
In a romantic speech, to express the importance of enduring love.
I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.
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Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
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Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.
Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks.
Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.
I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I write anything else.
If you want to change the way others treat you, you should first change the way you treat yourself. Unless you learn to love yourself, fully and sincerely, there is no way you can be loved. Once you achieve that stage, however, be thankful for every thorn that others might throw at you. It is a sign that you will soon be showered in roses.
Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love.
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