I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

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Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

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Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'

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If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

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Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

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If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? – Lily Tomlin

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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