A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
We’ve made a great mess of love
Since we made an ideal of it.
The moment I swear to love a woman, a certain woman, all my life
That moment I begin to hate her.The moment I even say to a woman: I love you! —
My love dies down considerably.The moment love is an understood thing between us, we are sure of it,
It’s a cold egg, it isn’t love any more.Love is like a flower, it must flower and fade;
If it doesn’t fade, it is not a flower,
It’s either an artificial rag blossom, or an immortelle, for the cemetery.The moment the mind interferes with love, or the will fixes on it,
Or the personality assumes it as an attribute, or the ego takes possession of it,
It is not love any more, it’s just a mess.
And we’ve made a great mess of love, mind-perverted, will-perverted, ego-perverted love.
“I think,” said Anna, playing with the glove she had taken off, “I think…if so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”
Vronsky was gazing at Anna, and with a fainting heart waiting for what she would say. He sighed as after a danger escaped after she uttered those words.
When your two best friends begin to date..
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The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,
The humble sheep a threat’ning horn:
While the Lily white shall in love delight,
Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.
The roses are dying
Where once was blood red,
pitch violet, are lying.
I wander thro’ each charter’d street,
Near where the charter’d Thames does flow,
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.In every cry of every Man,
In every Infant’s cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forg’d manacles I hear.How the Chimney-sweeper’s cry
Every black’ning Church appalls;
And the hapless Soldier’s sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls.But most thro’ midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlot’s curse
Blasts the new born Infant’s tear,
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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The absence of self worth you feel when you talk to someone you are romantically interested in.
My names Adam. I'm 17. I like philosophy, anthropology, cello, piano, psychology, art, and stuff that just grabs my attention.
