"I used to believe that love and happiness……" — John Dufresne
"I used to believe that love and happiness were synonymous. I was a fool. Love intensifies all emotions. Nothing is so painful o so sweet, so thrilling or so desperate... Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love thats essential. You are never so alive as when you love, never so alert, intuitive, attentive, never so smart or so compassionate."
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14 Quotes by John Dufresne
John Dufresne has 14 quotes on this site.
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Every person in therapy has a love disorder.
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A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?
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The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn’t be. We are our brothers’ keepers. There is…
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Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.
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We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories…
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A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.
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Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our…
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You will feel discouraged; you will lose confidence in your abilities; you will be bored with the characters–and the only…
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You can't possibly conduct a proper affair without a lot of deliberating, scheming, speculating, and conniving. It's a delicate balance…
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You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing…
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Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done.
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Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love that's essential.
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