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Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean, was by it [Christianity] degraded into the mere mechanical action of reproduction.

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What is it that love does to a woman? Without it, she only sleeps; with it, alone, she lives.

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Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.

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A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.

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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

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What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? —"Wanda

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The Christian religion, outwardly and even in intention humble, does, without meaning it, teach man to regard himself as the most important of all created things. Man surveys the starry heavens and hears with his ears of the plurality of worlds; yet his religion bids him believe that his alone out of these innumerable spheres is the object of his master's love and sacrifice.

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Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone

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Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.

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