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Letter "L" » Love
«Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
decidedly, My state, other states, Seeing Things, sees, state, stating
«Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.»
«Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using»
«Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.»
«Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.»
«Love is a sickness full of woes, / All remedies refusing; / A plant that with most cutting grows, / Most barren with best using. / Why so? / More we enjoy it, more it dies; / If not enjoyed, it sighing cries, / Hey ho.»
«Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
curable, disorder, incurred, incurring, incurs, influences, insanity, removal, temporary, temporary insanity
«Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
fume, fumes, sighs, smoke
«Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged a fire sparkling in lovers eyes, being vexed a sea nourished with lovers tears, What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a perserving sweet.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
chokes, choke up, choking, discreet, fire, fume, fumes, gall, galling, lovers, madness, nourished, purged, purges, purging, sea, sea a, sighs, smoke, smokes, smoke out, sparkle, sparkled, sparkles, sparkling, sweet, vexed, vexes, vexing
«Love is a spirit all compact of fire»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Love,
Spirit
| Keywords:
compact, compacted
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