Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.

—Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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About Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Portrait of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), known as Toulouse-Lautrec (French: [tuluz lotʁɛk]), was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator. His immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris's Belle Époque in the late 19th century allowed him to produce popular...

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Master Shaku Soen liked to take an evening stroll through a nearby village. One day he heard loud lamentations from a house and, on entering quietly, realized that the householder had died and the family and neighbors were crying. He sat down and cried with them. An old man noticed him and remarked, rather shaken on seeing the famous master crying with them, "I would have thought that you at least were beyond such things." "But it is this which puts me beyond it," replied the master with a sob.

—Irmgard Schloegl

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You shouldn’t try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you’re supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you’re supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it’s necessary because it’s all part of you getting to the next part of yourself.

—Cecelia Ahern in The Book of Tomorrow

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Home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.

—Cecelia Ahern in Love, Rosie

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To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

—Dorothy Thompson

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You’re scared of the way I make you feel because you don’t want to feel anything.

—Maya Banks in Sweet Temptation

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