Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
Interpretation
Love can often be blind and influenced by circumstances that obscure clarity.
This quote by Maurice Chevalier suggests that people sometimes fall in love under circumstances where their judgment is clouded, comparing it to choosing an unsuitable suit in poor lighting. It highlights the notion that romantic feelings may develop despite lack of clarity about one's true feelings or the suitability of the partner, indicating that love often arises in unexpected and less than ideal conditions.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the complexities of romantic relationships.
Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left, pen or brush in hand, with no inspiration at all. Gifted people need not, therefore, make a song and dance about being or supposing themselves superior. They simply happened to be born with that fortunate, subconscious equipment of theirs, and the mystery exists independently of intelligence or ambition.
You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.
When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God's love for us.
Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.
Maybe I didn't treat you Quite as good as I should have Maybe I didn't love you Quite as often as I could have Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind You were always on my mind
I love three things," I then say. "I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth." "And which do you love best?" "The dream.
The wind is tossing the lilacs,_x000D_ _x000D_ The new leaves laugh in the sun,_x000D_ _x000D_ And the petals fall on the orchard wall,_x000D_ _x000D_ But for me the spring is done._x000D_ _x000D_ Beneath the apple blossoms_x000D_ _x000D_ I go a wintry way,_x000D_ _x000D_ For love that smiled in April_x000D_ _x000D_ Is false to me in May.
Every mouth you’ve ever kissed was just practice. All the bodies you’ve ever undressed and ploughed in to were preparing you for me. I don’t mind tasting them in the memory of your mouth. _x000D_ Was it a long journey? Did it take you long to find me? _x000D_ You’re here now, welcome home.
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