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.
The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.
How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life. [Written to his wife, Mileva]
For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.
One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.
A bruise, blue in the muscle, you impinge upon me. As bone hugs the ache home, so I'm vexed to love you, your body the shape of returns, your hair a torso of light, your heat I must have, your opening I'd eat, each moment of that soft-finned fruit, inverted fountain in which I don't see me.
Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves
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