And Stars, 1939, Translated From French by Lewis Galantière

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The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

~Mother Teresa Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder. ~Charles Morgan You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum" Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. ~Ovid Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. ~Eric Fromm Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. ~Kahlil Gibran Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway. ~Judith Viorst,Redbook, 1975 Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949 Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantire

When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb Do I love you because you're beautiful, Or are you beautiful because I love you? ~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. ~Rosemonde Gerard Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate! ~Sandra J. Dykes Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ~Mark Overby Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods. ~Theodor Reik, Of Love and Lust, 1957 Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ~Peter Ustinov

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595 The art of love... is largely the art of persistence. ~Albert Ellis Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. ~Michael Leunig Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524 Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ~Henry David Thoreau To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. ~Laurence Marks, M*A*S*H, "Love Story," original air date 7 January 1973, spoken by the character Hawkeye A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. ~Frank A. Clark Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~Robert Heinlein The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore

We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe If I love you, what business is it of yours? ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. ~Franois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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