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He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#passion #rape #love

love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#noble #passion #philosophy #poet-knights #poetry

Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's the kids who really take it in the groin. ↗

— Paul Goodman

#goodman #humankind #paul #love

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.) ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#good #love #love

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#journalists #media #newspapers #love

Pada hemat aku la, if a man really loves you, he will go straight to your wali. Sebab dia tahu dia tak nak mempermainkan kau. Dia nak ambil kau terus jadi yang halal untuk dia. ↗

— Nirrosette

#nirrosette #love

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you ↗

— Kent Nerburn

#love

Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair. ↗

— Sonya Hartnett

#briny-water #channel #despair #exception #flooded

I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn’t care, because none of them would ever own him—own any larger piece of him than I now did. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#love #romance #starcrossed #love

For the love of all humanity, shake what your mama gave you! ↗

— Jim Benton

#love