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We love those whom we serve (p. 26) ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

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Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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My heart belongs to you,' He promised. 'Would you have loved me when I was a girl?' 'I have always loved you. Even before I met you I loved the idea of you. ↗

— Isobelle Carmody

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Love and fantasy, go hand in hand. ↗

— Marc Chagall

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He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear. ↗

— William Faulkner

#words #love

There isn’t anyone you couldn’t love once you’ve heard their story. ↗

— Mary Lou Kownacki

#life #love #inspirational

So you're in love with her?' she went on. A word again ... When the minds have learnt to mingle, when no thought is wholly one's own, and each has taken too much of the other ever to be entirely himself alone; when one has reached the beginning of seeing with a single eye, loving with a single heart, enjoying with a single joy; when there can be moments of identity and nothing is separate save bodies that long for one another ... When there is that, where is the word? There is only the inadequacy of the word that exists. 'We love one another,' I said. ↗

— John Wyndham

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Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . . ↗

— Martin Amis

#selflessness #love

Like the first whiff of burning incense, or like the taste of one's first cup of saké, there is in love that moment when all its power is felt. ↗

— Sōseki Natsume

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I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human. ↗

— Ben Stein

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