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Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880), Book II, Chapter 3 (trans. Constance Garnett)In context
Love children especially, for like the angels they too are sinless, and they live to soften and purify our hearts, and, as it were, to guide us. Woe to him who offends a child.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880), Book VI, Chapter 3: Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima
- Children
On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), III
The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book II: An Unfortunate Gathering, Chapter IVIn context
But being in love doesn’t mean loving. You may be in love with a woman and yet hate her.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book III: The Sensualists, Chapter IIIIn context
Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book VI: The Russian Monk, Chapter IIIIn context
- God
- Nature
Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and as it were to guide us.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book VI: The Russian Monk, Chapter IIIIn context
- Children
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.
Ernest Dowson1867–1900Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae (1891)In context
I cried for madder music and for stronger wine,
But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire,
Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine
Ernest Dowson1867–1900Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae (1891)In context
- Emotion
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870The Three Musketeers (1844), Chapter XIIn context
Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.
ADAlexis Dupuy
- Marriage
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry van Dyke1852–1933Time Is
- Time
I want you to understand I shall not hold you to any midaevil code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly.
Amelia Earhart1897–1939Note to George P. Putnam, on the date of their wedding (7 February 1931), as quoted in The Sound of Wings (1989) by Mary S. Lovell
- Marriage
All true morality, inward and outward, is comprehended in love, for love is the foundation of all the commandments.
Meister Eckhart1260–1328Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909), Sermon VII: Outward and Inward Morality
- Morality