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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones. As the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. - Anonymous.

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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. - Mohandas Gandhi.

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Always love your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.- Oscar Wilde.

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The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them. - Syrus Publilius.

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Doubt thou the stars are fire. Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar. But never doubt I love. -  William Shakespeare in Hamlet, Act ii, Sc.2.

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For every lover is, in his head, a madman and in his heart a minstrel.- Neil Gaiman.

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Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein

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If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures; you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible. - Osho.

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If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Teresa

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Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. - William               Shakespeare in Twelfth Night (II, iii, 44-45)

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. -  Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

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Love is the most abiding power of the world. -  Matin Luther King

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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. -  Bertrand Russell

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They do not love that do not show their love. -  William Shakespeare in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act i, Sc.2

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Love happens once, Everything else is just life. - Anonymous.

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Love conquers all. - Virgil.

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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.- Aristotle

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No my friend, darkness is not everywhere, for here and there I find faces illuminated from within; paper lanterns among the dark trees.- Carole Borges

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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. - Charles Caleb Colton

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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.- Dag Hammarskjold

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There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.- Dante

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.- Eric Hoffer

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With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.- Eric Hoffer

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I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.- Ernest Hemingway, "A Farewell To Arms”

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"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.- Franz Kafka

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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.- Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.- Kurt Vonnegut

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If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself....If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself, or even less, in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct; and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight- Leonardo da Vinci

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The loneliest it gets is when the wind begins to chill and when I sit atop of your old street, the church top brings a stillness to me, there's nothing I would rather do, than have my heart broken by you.- Lifetime

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Life dies inside a person when there is no others willing to be-friend him. He thus gets filled with emptiness and a non-existent sense of self-worth.- Mark R. J. Lavoie

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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the spaces between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.- Maya Angelou

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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.- Mother Teresa

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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.- Paul Valery

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.- Pearl S. Buck

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There's a cold wind blowing softly through a narrow, dark ravine. A sound is heard, soft and everywhere, like the rustle of silk.  It echoes from every dismal reaching corner of the abyss, and whispers of the aching loneliness within the crevasse.  A cold, blue-white light transcends an aura of weird lifelessness to the jagged rocks of the cleft walls.  There appears a soul within all of this, like a thin frail mist, congealing within its center -- a tiny translucent gray cloud.- Ralph Kenyon, 1962

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There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go ... focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed.- Minnie Driver

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Each person was to himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, would anyone hear... would it even matter?