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Love |
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| "Love is the flower of life, and blossoms
unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found,
and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration." |
| -- D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), British writer |
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| "Love is like an hourglass, with the heart
filling up as the brain empties." |
| -- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910) |
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| "To live without loving is
not really to live." |
| --
Moliere
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| "Love thy neighbor as thyself." |
| --
Mathew 23:39, The Bible
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| "Love
is metaphysical gravity."
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| --
Buckminster Fuller |
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| "The
way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."
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| --
G.K. Chesterton |
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| “Love is a gross exaggeration
of the difference between one person and everybody else.”
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| --
George Bernard Shaw
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| "Immature love says, 'I love you because I
need you.' Mature love says, 'I need you because I love you.' " |
| -- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| "To fall in love is to create a religion
that has a fallible god." |
| -- Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentinean
writer |
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"Love alone is capable
of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it
alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves."
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| --
Pierre Teilharde De Chardin, French philosopher |
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“I
look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps" |
| -- George Harrison, English rock composer and
performer |
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| "We are shaped and fashioned by what we
love." |
| -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832),
German writer, scientist |
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"Love your enemies,
for they tell you your faults."
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--
Benjamin Franklin, US statesman, diplomat, inventor, printer |
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| "Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into
reality." |
| -- Theodor Reik |
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| "Life has taught us
that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward
together in the same direction." |
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--
Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
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| "If thou must love me, let
it be for naught except for love's sake only." |
| -- Elizabeth Barret Browning
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| "Age does not protect you
from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." |
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-- Jeanne Moreau
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| "At the touch of love,
everyone becomes a poet." |
| -- Plato
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"We're one
But we're not the same
Well we
Hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt." |
| -- U2 |
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| "Let love be your greatest
aim." |
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-- Bible, 1 Corinthians 14:1
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| "You can search throughout the entire
universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and
affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found
anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe
deserve your love and affection." |
| -- Buddha (563?-483? BC), Indian founder of
Buddhism |
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“Let
me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.” |
| -- William Shakespeare, English playwright |
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| "Love, n - A temporary insanity curable by
marriage." |
| -- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), American
writer, The Devil's Dictionary |
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| "In
love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two."
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-- Erich
Fromm |
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| "I may not be a smart man but I know what love
is."
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| -- Forest Gump
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"Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No
man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been
married a quarter of a century."
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| -- Mark Twain (1835-1910), American author, humorist
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| "The only way of knowing a
person is to love them without hope." |
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-- Walter Benjamin (1892-1940),
German essayist, philosopher, critic
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| "People think
love is an emotion. Love is good sense." |
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-- Ken Kesey |
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"Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope."
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| -- Josh Billings |
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“It is not love that is blind,
but jealousy."
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| -- Lawrence Durrell |
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“In jealousy there is more
self-love than love.”
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| -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld |
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| "Sex
without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go,
it's one of the best." |
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-- Woody Allen (Born
1935) |
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| "The perfect love affair is one which is
conducted entirely by post." |
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-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
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| "No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here
and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more
the object of our love seems to us to be a victim." |
| -- Boris Pasternak |
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| "I loved
you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow
like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not
new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come
to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey,
that's no way to say goodbye." |
| -- Leonard (Norman) Cohen (b.
1934), Canadian writer, author |
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| "The great malediction is lifted; it is in human love that
the power to regenerate the world rests."
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| -- Andre Breton, French writer and Surrealist organizer |
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| "Only the love for this earth can give freedom to a warrior's
spirit: and freedom is joy, efficiency, and abandon in the face of all
odds."
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| -- Carlos Castanada |
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| "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 (1877-1962),
German-born Swiss writer |
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| "If
you judge people, you have no time to love them." |
| --
Mother
Teresa |
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| "Love is like war; easy to begin but very
hard to stop." |
| -- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956), American
editor |
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| "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only
light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do
that." |
| -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-68),
African-American reverend, civil rights leader |
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| "We must have more faith in the power of love to eternally renew
itself than in the power of fear to tear us asunder. The spirit does not
turn away from human frailty or conflict, but sees them merely as wounds
to heal."
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--
Marianne Williamson, Illuminata
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| "To love and win is the best thing. To
love and lose, the next best."
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--
William
M. Thackeray |
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| "Love is the ultimate wildcard in the card
game of life." |
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--
Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002), American writer |
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"Love is a choice you make from moment to
moment." |
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-- Barbara De Angelis |
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| "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward
together in the same direction." |
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-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
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| "Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and
everybody else." |
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-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
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| “The
lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than
any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in
disguise.” |
| -- George Santayana (1863-1952) |
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| "Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other." |
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-- W. Somerset Maugham |
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| "In our life there is a single color, as
on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It
is the color of love. "
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--
Marc Chagall
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| "Perhaps love is the process of my
leading you gently back to yourself."
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--
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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| "Love is the only way to grasp
another human being in the innermost core of his personality." |
| -- Victor Frankel |
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| "Be yourself. Especially do
not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face
of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the
grass." |
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--
Max Ehrmann (1872-1945), American poet,
lawyer |
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| "Love is the vital essence that
pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the
graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of
human weal and woe--the open sesame to every soul." |
| -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
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"Each time that one loves
is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter
singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great
experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as
often as possible." |
| --
Oscar Wilde
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| "Lots of people are
willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much
grander thing to live for that person." |
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-- Jason Hurst
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| "Do you want me to tell you
something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's
why people are so cynical about it.. It really is worth fighting for, being
brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk
everything, you risk even more." |
| -- Erica Jong
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| "Love is a state in which a
man sees things most decidedly as they are not." |
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-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "He
whom love touches not walks in darkness." |
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-- Plato
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| "The supreme happiness in
life is the conviction that we are loved." |
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-- Victor Hugo
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"Love
is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another." |
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-- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956),
American editor, critic |
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“To
love someone means to see him as god intended him." |
| -- Feodor Dostoevski |
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| "The way to love anything is to realize
that it might be lost." |
| -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936),
British writer |
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| "Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,
aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love." |
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) |
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"The world is indeed full
of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is
fair, and though in all lands love is mingled with grief, love grows perhaps the
greater." |
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--
J. R. R. Tolkien, English novelist |
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| "True love doesn't consist
of holding hands, it consists of holding hearts." |
| --
O.A. Battista
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| "Everyone admits that love is wonderful
and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is." |
| -- Diane Ackerman (b. 1948), American-born
author |
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| "Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the
answer, sex raises some pretty good questions." |
| -- Woody Allen (b. 1935), American comedian, stage and movie
actor |
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| "Love is not primarily a
relationship to a specific person ... it is an attitude, an
orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a
person to the world as a whole." |
| -- Erich Fromm |
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| "Put away the book, the
description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of
self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love
is or should be. When you love, everything will come right. Love has its own
action. Love, and you will know the blessings of it. Keep away from the
authority who tells you what love and what it is not. No authority knows and he
who knows cannot tell. Love, and there
is understanding." |
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-- Krishnamurti
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| "Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be
like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a
winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving." |
| -- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931),
Lebanese-born American mystic, poet, painter |
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| "Don't forget to love yourself." |
| -- Søren Aaby Kierkegaard (1813-55),
Danish religious philosopher |
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| "All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this
mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame." |
| -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772-1834), English poet, critic |
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| "A successful marriage requires falling in
love many times, always with the same person." |
| -- Mignon McLaughlin |
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| "If you
can't be with the one you love, than love the one you're with." |
| -- Stephen Stills |
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| "The first sight of him
did something to her, twisted her heart round so that it almost hurt.
Absurd that a man--an ordinary, yes, a perfectly ordinary young man-- should be
able to do that to one! That the mere look of him should set the world spinning,
that his voice should make you want-- just a little-- to cry... love surely should
be a pleasurable emotion, not one that hurts you with its intensity." |
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-- Agatha Christie
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| "The path to love isn't a
choice, for all of us must find out who we are. This is our spiritual
destiny. The path can be postponed; you can lose faith in it or even despair
that love exists. None of that is permanent; only the path is." |
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-- Deepak Chopra
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“Nothing
you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
It's easy.
All you need is love.
All you need is love.
All you need is love, love.
Love is all you need.”
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| -- John Lennon & Paul McCartney, English rock composers and
performers |
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| "Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in
love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives
to be the other, and both together make up one whole." |
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-- Miguel
de Cervantes (1547-1616), Spanish writer |
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| "Love anything and your
heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it
intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round
with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in
the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark,
motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become
unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable." |
| --
C.S. Lewis, English writer |
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| "I feel that there is
someone in the world who can complete me, make me feel whole, and who I can
laugh with. That person will love me not because he decides to, but because of
the fact that when he is near me, he will feel the way I do: like one full
entity, concerted. I also believe that love is something that no one person can
fix the limits of, because it is as infinite and mysterious as the stars that
it's written on. No one really should attempt to explain it, because it is one
of the greatest natural phenomena in the world that all people should just have
blind faith in. Love is trust and certitude in the unknown, for without that
faith, emotions can die." |
| -- Mary Pat Michalek
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"All alone, or in two's,
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad bugger's wall." |
| -- Pink Floyd (Waters/Gilmour) |
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