But she—she heard the violin,
And left my side, and entered in:
Love passed into the house of lust.
Love Quotes
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Two of the best-known love quotes are flagged here as misattributed. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life” is credited to Confucius. The oldest English version anyone has found is from a 1982 alumni magazine, where the man quoted was himself passing it along from an unnamed source. “God made beer because he loves us and wants us to be happy” is credited to Benjamin Franklin. It looks like a garbled version of what he wrote about wine in 1779, in a letter to André Morellet.
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He that is purified by Love is pure (Safi), and he who is purified by the Beloved in Sufi.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity.
Late capitalism is like your love life: it looks a lot less bleak through an Instagram filter.
Sweet breathe the henna-flowers that harem girls
So love to twine among their glossy curls.
I'm tired of Love; I'm still more tired of Rhyme.
But money gives me pleasure all the time.
I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.
For all the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.