“'Love' is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

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“I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“I was liked, and what a difference it made.”

― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“The day when it will be possible for the woman to love in her strength and not in her weakness, not to escape from herself but to find herself, not out of resignation but to affirm herself, love will become for her as for man the source of life...”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

“Even in dreams, you could not fall forever.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The cruelty of fooled honesty is often great after enlightenment, and it was mighty in Clare now.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“This is the middle of my life. I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge, halfway across, halfway over. I’m supposed to have accumulated things by now: possessions, responsibilities, achievements, experience...”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“all the fruit I have reaped from my learning serves only to make me sensible how much I have to learn.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“Anyhow there was no bitterness in her; none of that sense of moral virtue which is so repulsive in good women. She enjoyed practically everything.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

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