Walter Scott
View AuthorSelf-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
Susan Sontag
View AuthorTo love hurts. It's like giving yourself up to be skinned and knowing that at any moment the other person could leave taking your skin with them.
Bruce Springsteen
View AuthorFriendship prevents you from slipping into the abyss.
Germaine de Staël
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Germaine de Staël
View AuthorLove is the story of women's lives and an episode in men's.
Germaine de Staël
View AuthorWhen a friend realizes that we need them urgently, they always lose their cordiality.
John Steinbeck
View AuthorUnder his cowardly shell, man aspires to goodness and wants to be loved. If he takes the path of vice, it is because he believed he was taking a shortcut that would lead him to love.
Stendhal
View AuthorLove is a beautiful flower, but one must have the courage to go and pick it at the edge of a precipice.
Stendhal
View AuthorFor a lover, there are no longer any friends.
Stendhal
View AuthorTo go through life without love is like going to battle without music, like embarking on a journey without a book, like sailing the sea without a guiding star.
Stendhal
View AuthorThe art of love comes down to saying exactly what the level of intoxication of the moment requires.
Stendhal
View AuthorLove is like a fever: it arises and extinguishes without the will playing the smallest part in it.