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Understanding brings control.

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

There would be no passion in this world if we never had to fight for what we love.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, Our own affections are the fiercest lords.

Those who consciousness is unified abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace. But those whose desires are fragmented, who are selfishly attached to the results of their work, are bound in everything they do.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion! and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting -- more lovely in sullenness! Then, Jack, her neck! O, Jack, Jack!

To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Do all things with love.

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. .

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion, constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.