Quotes From "Corellis Mandolin" By Unknown

Love itself is what is left over when being
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Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Unknown
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No man is a man until he has been a soldier. Unknown
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Women only nag when they feel unappreciated. Unknown
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Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and .. . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal. Unknown
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Men are sometimes driven by things that to a women make no sense, but she did know that Corelli had to be with his boys. Honour and common sense; in the light of the other, both of them are ridiculous. Unknown
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That is morality, I make myself imagine that it is personal. Unknown
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Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected? Unknown
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Don't give into him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control, and then you will be able to learn to see him as he is. Do you understand? Unknown
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Love is a temporary madness; it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of eternal passion. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two.” ~Louis de Bernieres . Unknown