[Being in love] is something like poetry. Certainly you can analyze it and expound its various senses and intentions but there is always something left over mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.
He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his...
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When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.
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Deb Caletti
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
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Eda J. LeShan
Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear to be wholly forgotten by it. Disgusted at the guilt or absurdity of Mankind, the Misanthrope flies from it: He resolves to become...
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Be the person you needed when you needed help.
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Rain Cooper
More Quotes By Muriel Spark
For those who like that sort of thing, " said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.
If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is not another practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches,...
If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work .. the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly...
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
