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«It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.»
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
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Passion
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affection, passion, sanctifies, sanctifying, sweetness, The Passion, to it
«If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.»
«Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection»
«If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.»
«If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me»
«Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
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affection, allow, imprisoned, imprisons, infallible, Interior, opposition, oppositions, recognize, reverse, reversed, reverses, Reversing
«It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them?. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.»
«If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution -- then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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abolish, affection, aspects, atone, atones, constitution, discovering, divinely, drug, each day, exaltation, fellows, Five Days, glowing, heavenly, individuals, novel, paradise, significant, six, sniff, sniffed, sniffing, sniffs, solved, swallow, undamaged, wake, wake up, wholly
«In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
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Affection
| Keywords:
affection, cases, had better, nine
«He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.»
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