Marie Corelli - Love Quotes

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Love, no matter how abused and maltreated, is a very patient god, and even while suffering from undeserved wounds, still works on, doing magical things.

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Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one!

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Love must be tender yet resolved! — Love must not swerve from it's given pledge! — Love must be all or nothing!.

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When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?

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If you find on close self-examination, that you love yourself, your own importance, your position, your money, your household goods and clothes, your place in what you call 'society', more tan the steady working for and following of Christ, — YOU ARE NOT A CHRISTIAN. That being the case, be brave about it! Say what you are, and do not pretend to be what you are not!

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Is love alone worth living for — worth dying for? Is it the only satisfying good we can grasp at among the shifting shadows of our brief existence? In all it's various phases and different workings, is it, after all, the brightest radiance known in the struggling darkness of our lives?

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As a rule men do not understand love. They understand desire, amounting sometimes to merciless covetousness for what they cannot get, — this is a leading characteristic of the masculine nature.

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A moneyless man if he wins a woman's love knows that such love is genuine and untainted by self-interest; but a rich man can never be truly certain of love at all.

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A man, if he be strong and healthy, is always more or less ashamed when Love, with a single effort, proves him to be weaker than a blade of grass swaying in the wind. What! all his dignity, all his resoluteness, all his authority, swept down by the light touch of a willow wand?

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Nothing upon earth is so singular as kindness, — nothing so rare as sympathy, — nothing so absolutely unique, wonderful and purely divine, as ungrudging, unboastful, devoted, changeless love that seeks nothing for itself, but freely gives everything.

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Love, if it be love indeed, asks no permission as to where it shall seek vantage ground or gain its victory — it is of all powers the most unfettered and the one which takes the widest course of largest liberty.

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I am simple worker, — earning every penny I need, — a worker and weaver of dreams. One of the dreams was love — and though rudely awakened, I still have power to dream again.

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The beginning of my history is — love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it.

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I have longed and do long for fame, for wealth, for the world's applause, for all the things that you seem to think so petty and mean. How can I help it? Is not fame power? Is not money double power, strong to assist one's self and those one loves? Is not the world's favour a necessary means to gain these things?

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Absolutely disinterested love for a brilliantly endowed woman would be difficult to find in any male nature. Men love what is inferior to themselves, not superior. Thus women who are endowed with more then common intellectual ability have to choose from one of two alternatives. Love, or what is called love, and child bearing, — or fame, and lifelong loneliness.

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There is only one thing that can ease the burden of life for a woman, and that is love.

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Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! — I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love — and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.

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To be missed at all when you die, someone must love you very deeply and unselfishly; and unselfish love is rarer to find among mortals than a pearl in a dustbin.

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A love affair, to be conducted with spirit and enterprise, should always bristle with opposition and difficulty, real or invented.

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Love is electricity. Two telegrams are enough to settle the business, — one from the eyes of the man, the other from the eyes of the woman.

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