"Self-love is the instrument of our preservation." — Voltaire

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• Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. — Saint Augustine
• What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful… — Saint Augustine
• It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the… — Teresa of Avila
• True love stories never have endings. — Richard Bach
• Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is… — James A. Baldwin
• Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. — James A. Baldwin
• Love is the poetry of the senses. — Honore de Balzac
• When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love,… — Natalie Clifford Barney
• If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. — Lynda Barry
• I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. — Henry Ward Beecher
• Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love… — Henry Ward Beecher

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