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"We can only learn to love by loving."



Iris Murdoch



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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

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Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

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I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.

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