On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.
Fyodor DostoevskyRead
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On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.
She's not like anyone I've ever seen before. When I'm not with her, I want to be. And when she opens the book and I see her face, I can barely remember what I'm supposed to say, much less how to speak at all." I test the words on my tongue. "I think I might be in love with her. But how can I really know, since the only love I've ever experienced was written for me?
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
I love you, because the love you gave me was the only love I've ever had, the only love I ever will have
Only love can keep anyone alive.
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
My only love sprung from my only hate.
I was wrong. God's law is only Love.
I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.
...I had to point at Hanna. But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. I tried to tell myself that I had known nothing of what she had done when I chose her. I tried to talk myself into the state of innocence in which children love their parents. But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible. ...And perhaps we are responsible even for the love we feel for our parents.
Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!
One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
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