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They gave him a seashell: "So you'll learn to love the water." They opened a cage and let a bird go free: "So you'll learn to love the air." They gave him a geranium: "So you'll learn to love the earth." And they gave him a little bottle sealed up tight. "Don't ever, ever open it. So you'll learn to love mystery.

—Eduardo Galeano

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War creates peace like hate creates love.

—David L. Wilson

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The days are too short even for love; how can there ever be time for quarreling?

—Margaret Gatty

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I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.

—Leonard Cohen

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There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something, we'd all love one another.

—Frank Zappa

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The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by the poor, it's because they do not know them.

—Mother Teresa

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When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

—Helen Hunt Jackson

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Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

—William Blake

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Any time not spent on love is wasted.

—Torquato Tasso

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The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were doomed.

—Jodi Picoult in Mercy

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Sometimes love isn't fireworks, sometimes love just comes softly.

—Janette Oke in Love Comes Softly

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To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

—George MacDonald

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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

—H. L. Mencken

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