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.
Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.
Ah, I am the judge of dreams, and you are the judge of love. Well, I find you guilty of dreaming good dreams, and sentence you to a lifetime of working and suffering for the sake of your dreams. I only hope that someday you won't declare me innocent of the crime of loving you.
She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness. It was the way she felt when she looked at the stars.
Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts. And with every act of love that emanates from any of us, we are activating miracles, adding to a spiritual ocean that in time will purify our planet of all vestiges of fear. Love alone can triumph over hate, and if we give it the chance, it will.
As a matter of fact she does not know to this day if those words were spoken, or if he only caught her, wound his arms around her, held her so tightly, with such continual, changing pressures that it seemed more than two arms were needed, that she was surrounded by him, his body strong and light, demanding and renouncing all at once, as if he was telling her she was wrong to give up on him, everything was possible, but then again that she was not wrong, he meant to stam himself on her and go.
I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.
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