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In life's brief game to be a winner
A man must have...oh yes, above
All else, of course, someone to love.

— Vikram Seth The Golden Gate (1986)

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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

An Equal Music (1999)

In the strict ranks of Gay and Straight
What is my status: Stray? Or Great?

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

An Equal Music (1999)

All you who sleep tonight
Far from the ones you love,
No hands to left or right,
And emptiness above—
Know that you aren’t alone.
The whole world shares your tears,
Some for two nights or one,
And some for all their years.

[T]hink of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.

A Suitable Boy (1993)

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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