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Eternity was in our lips and eyes
William Shakespeare1564–1616Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Act I, Scene III, spoken by CleopatraIn context
When you do dance, I wish you
A wave o’ th’ sea, that you might ever do
Nothing but that
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Winter’s Tale (c. 1611), Act IV, Scene IV, spoken by FlorizelIn context
- Dancing
Their lives were ruined, he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling which had no necessary connection with affinities that alone render a lifelong comradeship tolerable.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Jude the Obscure (1895), Part First: At Marygreen, Chapter XIIn context
- Marriage
It isn’t possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
E. M. Forster1879–1970A Room with a View (1908), Part Two, Chapter XIXIn context
Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
E. M. Forster1879–1970Howards End (1910), Chapter 19In context
- Friendship
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
E. M. Forster1879–1970Howards End (1910), Chapter 22In context
I’d have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister⁠—anything that a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don’t realize it. You really are a part of me.
Willa Cather1873–1947My Ántonia (1918), Book IV: The Pioneer Woman’s Story, Chapter IVIn context
- Friendship
Ain’t it wonderful, Jim, how much people can mean to each other?
Willa Cather1873–1947My Ántonia (1918), Book IV: The Pioneer Woman’s Story, Chapter IVIn context
- Friendship
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness
James Fenimore Cooper1789–1851The Last of the Mohicans (1826), Chapter XVIIIIn context
- History
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen1775–1817Northanger Abbey (1817), Chapter 4In context
- Friendship
In people’s eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941Mrs Dalloway (1925), Part 1In context
- Life & Death
In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), Phase the First: The Maiden, Chapter VIn context
- Time
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870The Three Musketeers (1844), Chapter XIIn context
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
Henrik Ibsen1828–1906A Doll’s House (1879), Act III, spoken by NoraIn context
- Marriage
The Love which moves the sun and the other stars.
Dante Alighieri1265–1321The Divine Comedy (c. 1320), Paradiso, Canto XXXIIIIn context
- God