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There are no events but thoughts and the heart’s hard turning, the heart’s slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
ADAnnie Dillard1945–2026Holy the Firm (1977)
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Henrietta Temple (1837)
I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Lothair (1870), Ch. 30.
- Marriage
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John Donne1572–1631Elegies, No. 2, The Anagram, line 27
- Beauty
Love is agrowing, to full constant light; and his first minute, after noon, is night.
John Donne1572–1631
If in his study he hath so much care
To hang all old strange things, let his wife beware.
John Donne1572–1631Epigrams, “Antiquary”, in Poems (1633)
- Clever Jabs
- Marriage
Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.
John Donne1572–1631A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning (1633)In context
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fix’d foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th’ other do.
John Donne1572–1631A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning (1633)In context
Mark but this flea, and mark in this,
How little that which thou deniest me is;
John Donne1572–1631The Flea (1633)In context
- Sex
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved?
John Donne1572–1631The Good-Morrow (1633)In context
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
John Donne1572–1631The Good-Morrow (1633)In context
- Beauty
To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)
Fathers and teachers, I ponder, “What is hell?” I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880), Book VI, Chapter 3 (trans. Constance Garnett)In context
The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that’s the chief thing, and that’s everything; nothing else is wanted — you will find out at once how to arrange it all.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), V
If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880), Book II, Chapter 3 (trans. Constance Garnett)In context
- Forgiveness
- God