The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.
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Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself read more
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in read more
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one read more
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of read more
The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
