To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

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I’m sorry I can’t do more. But happy birthday, Sadie.” He leaned forward and kissed me on the lips. ― Rick Riordan

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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel. ― Mikhail Lermontov

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You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

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Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so. ― Naomi Wolf

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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

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I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

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You know how many men make music without biting each other's heads off? Why do we have to do that? There's room for everybody. I really couldn't care less what the next girl's doing. If she's shining, that's good. It's not taking away from my light. -Megan Thee Stallion

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

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