Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
Charles BukowskiRead
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.
Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their era. They have been able to sing, to laugh, and to pray out loud; they have danced and shared what Saint Paul called 'the madness of saintliness'. They have been joyful - because those who love conquer the world and have no fear of loss. True love is an act of total surrender.
Love is, after all, a curse of suffering.
When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.
Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.
Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.
All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.
Love is the Answer. What was the Question?
Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving.
Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see if they're "equally infinite." Infinity just is, and that's the way I think love is, too.
Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.
Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.
The love of God is like himself – equal, constant, not capable of augmentation or diminution; our love is like ourselves – unequal, increasing, waning, growing, declining. His, like the sun, always the same in its light, though a cloud may sometimes interpose; ours, as the moon, has its enlargements and straightenings.
Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and most impregnable stronghold which is the human heart. It is the most powerless because it can do nothing except by consent.
Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love." -
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
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