One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
StendhalRead
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
Interpretation
The joy we derive from love is directly linked to the anxieties we have about it.
Stendhal's quote suggests that our experiences of love are deeply intertwined with our fears and insecurities. The more we are afraid to lose someone or afraid of being vulnerable, the more intensely we might feel the pleasures and joys of love, indicating that love can be a source of both bliss and trepidation.
In practice
During a wedding toast, one might say this quote to highlight the depth of love's experience.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, The love that moves the sun and the other stars.
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
Everyone is welcome in drag. Everyone is important and valuable.
If I had time in a bottle, if words could make wishes come true, I'd save everyday for eternity passes. And then I would spend them with you.
The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love.
You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.
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