#pass

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#love #marriage #passion #love

Love is the most selfish of all the passions. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

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She had missed him so long now, that the feeling had become a part of her. As each day passed, the missing distanced itself from her heart. One day she woke, and realized the missing was there but the pain was gone. Missing without pain is tolerable. Pain linked to heartache is intolerable. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#jamie-weise #love #lovers #passion #love

He could have watched her all night. He could watch her for an eternity and still never be able to capture the essence of what it is that makes ‘love’. ↗

— Dianna Hardy

#eternity #hunger #love #loving #lust

Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a heart and who is not wretchedly and hopelessly blasé feels his love increased by his happiness, and very often the best way to retain a lover ready to leave is to give one's self up to him without reserve. ↗

— Théophile Gautier

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Oh God, let me not be cured of love, but let my passion grow! Let me love for love's sake! ↗

— Diane Wolkstein

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Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not succeed. ↗

— Gina Maranto

#empathy #love #love

A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute. ↗

— Rachilde

#caprice #love #lust #passion #love

Passion - eventually it cools. ↗

— Francesca Marciano

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Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

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