Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous constant.
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The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
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True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved.
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But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.
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Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
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The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be wiity every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Trees can smile in light at the sinking sun Just as the storm comes, as a girl would look On a departing lover most serene.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.
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Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.
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I'm a bad lover. Once I caught a peeping tom booing me.
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All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
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We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
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A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
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I'm a bad lover. I once caught a peeping tom booing me.
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The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
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The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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All mankind love a lover.
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Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
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The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen these qualities in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.
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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.
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A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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