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I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful and that which is love.

— Lorraine Hansberry To Be Young, Gifted and Black (1969)

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There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

A Raisin in the Sun (1959)

Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations.

To Be Young, Gifted and Black (1969)

Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!

A Raisin in the Sun (1959)

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men — and people in general.

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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.

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

Alexander Pope

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