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• We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention.... We can only love on this earth and against God.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Eye, Hands

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Acts 8 & 9, June 7, 1951.

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• Only love makes fruitful the soul. The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice, to dislike the clothes and voices of other men - all this was precious to her beyond everything.

  John Galsworthy

  Life, Men, Voice

  John Galsworthy (2015). “Beyond”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Can we only love
  Something created in our own imaginations?
  Are we all in fact unloving and unloveable?
  Then one is alone, and if one is alone
  Then lover and beloved are equally unreal
  And the dreamer is no more real than his dreams.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Dream, Real

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• Can we only love
  Something created in our own imaginations?

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Imagination

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.189, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Remember this: When I am gone, only love can take my place. Be absorbed night and day in the love of God, and give that love to all.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Love, Night, Giving

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• The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard -it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Men, Ideas

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• I invite you to not only love each other more but love each other better.

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Love Each Other

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• Was it love of people?' I asked her. 'Of course no,' she snapped sharply. 'How can you love ignorant, brutish people whom you don't even know? Can anyone love filth and squalor? Or lice and rats? Who can love aching weariness, and carry on working, in spite of it? One cannot love these things. One can only love God, and through His grace come to love His people.

  Jennifer Worth

  People, Grace, Ignorant

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• How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the reality turned out differently? Paperback romances and fairy tales promote an ideal of a first and only love, but few of us can claim to have had such uncomplicated good fortune. For most people, the process of finding the perfect partner is one trial and error: breakups, makeups, missed opportunities and misunderstandings. Human love is a fragile creation, and sometimes the smallest thing - the wrong choice of words or a single clumsy gesture - can make love shatter, stall or fade away.

  Haruki Murakami

  Breakup, Reality, Love Is

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• Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

  Anita Diament

  Debt, Pleasure

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• Does a soldier go to war in order to kill the enemy? no, he goes in order to die for his country. Does a wife want to show her husband how happy she is? no, she wants him to see how she suffers in order to make him happy Does the husband go to work thinking he will find personal fulfillment there? no, he is giving his sweat and tears for the good of the family And so it goes on: sons give up their dreams to please their parents, parents give up their lives in order to please their children; pain and suffering are used to justify the one thing that should bring only LOVE.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Country, Pain

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• I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge. For you meant only love, and love, and I felt only fear, and pain. So once in Israel love came to us incarnate, stood in the doorway between two worlds, and we were all afraid.

  Annie Dillard

  Running, Sorry, Pain

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.103, Canongate Books

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• Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

  Anita Diament

  Gratitude, Art, Enemy

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• Love is a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them - we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.

  Brené Brown

  Love Is, Two, People

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.93, Penguin

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• We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.

  William Boyd

  Ideas, Facts, Persons

  William Boyd (2013). “The Dream Lover: Short Stories”, p.335, A&C Black

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• Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two who lived together fifty years and hated each other all that time. I can't believe they really did. Somebody has said that 'hate is only love that has missed its way.' I feel sure that under the hatred they really loved each other . . . just as I really loved you all those years I thought I hated you . . . and I think death would show it to them. I'm glad I found out in life.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Hate, Believe, Thinking

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)”, p.701, e-artnow

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• It's amazing how smart the body is. Though maybe we could do without loving. I think it's overrated, and I think it's too hard. You should only love your children; that is necessary, because otherwise you might kill them. But to love a man? It's overrated, and it's too hard and I will never, ever do it again.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Children, Smart, Men

  Elizabeth Berg (2000). “Open House: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• Only love can keep anyone alive.

  Oscar Wilde

  Alive

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.582, Wordsworth Editions

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• He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

  Orson Scott Card

  Echoes, Sorrow, Love Someone

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.61, Macmillan

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• No, Susanna, " he said. "I cannot love you just a little. If that's what you want, you must find a different man." His green eyes were breathtaking in their intensity. His thumb brushed her bottom lip. "Because I can only love you entirely. With everything I am, and everything I ever will be. Body, mind, heart, soul.

  Tessa Dare

  Love You, Heart, Eye

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• I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

  Mother Teresa

  Responsibility, Two, Saint

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• I want him to know I love him. I want him to feel that we both tried, but this was way too big for us: we aren't going to survive this. Even if I hadn't done what I did with Mal, almost all the strings of our marriage have been severed; waiting together to say goodbye is the last one. Once it has been cut, only love will remain. And it takes more than love--no matter how fervent, deep and passionate--to keep two people together.

  Dorothy Koomson

  Love, Goodbye, Cutting

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• 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.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Fear

  "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?". Book by Martin Luther King Jr., 1967.

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• Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Love Is, World

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• I love you, because the love you gave me was the only love I've ever had, the only love I ever will have

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love You, I Love You Because

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.218, Dial Press

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