Moulin Rouge

When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

Herman Hesse

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life? He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful? No indeed

Plato

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Herman Hesse