masterwordsmith-unplugged

Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.

Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little Boy and his Bear will always be playing.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first...when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

We love without reason, and without reason we hate.

Hell, madame, is to love no longer.

Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Love is like racing across the frozen tundra on a snowmobile which flips over, trapping you underneath. At night, the ice-weasels come.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Hate is not the opposite of love: apathy is.

Anyone can hate. It costs to love.

Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.

Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.

'Tis not love's going hurts my days,

but that it went in little ways.

Immature love says 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Where there is love, there is pain.

There is so little difference between husbands that you might as well keep the first.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

I no longer cared about survival: only to be merely loved.

The heart that has truly loved never forgets

But as truly loves on to the close.

Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.

In the act of loving someone you arm them against you.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.

Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.

Follow your heart, and you perish.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

You can lead a heart to love, but you can't make it fall.

Love is the fire of life; it either consumes or purifies.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.