Love and Hate
114 aphorisms · 13 comments
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tiny.ag/udhekgkz · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
tiny.ag/k6uogmqd · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
tiny.ag/8zet9hei · ★★☆☆ Fair (138 ratings) · submitted 1997
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and fans a bonfire.
tiny.ag/0rcgdke8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (264 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
tiny.ag/hxz4udr0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (171 ratings) · submitted 1997
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
tiny.ag/opp6altk · ★★☆☆ Fair (680 ratings) · submitted 1997
Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Love and Hate and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ordtalmq · ★★☆☆ Fair (242 ratings) · submitted 1997
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
tiny.ag/bqsku45n · ★★☆☆ Fair (955 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Smilee J.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Anaïs Nin, in Health and Disease and Love and Hate
tiny.ag/oeren2sf · ★★☆☆ Fair (443 ratings) · submitted 1997
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
tiny.ag/fnkzalnh · ★★☆☆ Fair (107 ratings) · submitted 1997
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
tiny.ag/g2xohmoz · ★★☆☆ Fair (123 ratings) · submitted 1997
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.
tiny.ag/e0jqizfw · ★★☆☆ Fair (88 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
tiny.ag/p6sl3kmh · ★★☆☆ Fair (272 ratings) · submitted 1997
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets.
tiny.ag/jg3f6les · ★★☆☆ Fair (187 ratings) · submitted 1997
A friend is someone who knows all about you and and still likes you.
tiny.ag/is8fdtaa · ★★☆☆ Fair (1041 ratings) · submitted 1999
Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.
tiny.ag/ujvv0yxq · ★★☆☆ Fair (324 ratings) · submitted 1997
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
tiny.ag/e9i2oof8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (110 ratings) · submitted 1997
No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.
tiny.ag/p9dighnt · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
Money is good, love is wealth.
tiny.ag/nvdb2cfz · ★★☆☆ Fair (403 ratings) · submitted 1997
Burning desire is the eternal flame.
tiny.ag/re0zqqyo · ★★☆☆ Fair (121 ratings) · submitted 1997
Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.
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