Six Quotes About Love.

Each day for the rest of this summer, I'm going to post six quotes
that I've culled from a lifetime of
reading. Where possible, I'll list
not only the author of the quote,
but the book it came from. My hope
is that some of these quotations
will resonate with you, and give you
fresh insight into your own life and
life in general.

Today's category is Love. Tomorrow's
category is Old Age.

Blessings,

Owen

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"Love is the abiity to accept and enjoy the beauty which another has to offer, without the need to understand or possess completely."
-- Lawrence Durrell --
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"It is the terrible deception of love that it begins by engaging us in play, not with a woman of the
external world, but with a puppet,
fashioned and kept in our brain; the
only form of her, moreover, that we
have always at our disposal, the only one that we shall ever possess...an artificial creation to
which, by degrees, and to our own
hurt, we shall force the real woman
into resemblance."
-- Marcel Proust/ REMEMBRANCE OF
THINGS PAST --

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"We love those who can lead us to a
place we will never reach without them."
-- Norman Mailer --

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"When two people fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to
make any more. One day, we wake up
and find that the magic has gone. We
hustle to get it back, but by then,
it's usually too late. What we have
to do is work hard at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we remember to do it, we greatly
improve our chances of making love
stay."
-- Tom Robbins/ STILL LIFE WITH
WOODPECKER --

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"We can never understand why people
love each other because, to the lover, they show a side we do not know. It is the lover who operates
a transformation, and it is to this
lover we give our fulles self. We
ousiders never see the enlarged human being who appears in the
spotlight of an intense love."
-- Anais Nin/ THE DIARY OF ANAIS NIN

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"Love means assuming responsibility
for another human being. Love involves a decision: not to be
indifferent to the sufferings, the
sicknesses and failures, to the
false hopes, the mistakes and
disappointments, to the terrifying
limitations and the final death of
someone else."
(Author Unknown)

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