Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Interpretation
Love transcends time, erasing memories of origin and fears of conclusion.
This quote by Madame De Stael suggests that love is a timeless force, capable of nullifying our perception of time. When we experience true love, we are so absorbed in the moment that we forget the past and stop worrying about the future, encapsulating the feeling of being eternally connected to another person.
In practice
A wedding speech emphasizing the timeless bond between the couple.
When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.
The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
Seriously, though, I think I never ceased to be grateful of the fact that I am able to do a job that I really love - I never got over that.
Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection.
Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.' Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look. I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth.
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
You get that love from the people. It lets me know that all the madness I go through, all the stuff that the business has to offer with all its madness; it makes it worthwhile.
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