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This is hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra · 1883
1st Corinthians 13:4-8 · 55
If everything is imperfect in this world, love is perfect in its imperfection.
The Seventh Seal · 1957
Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.
Tyrannick Love, or The Royal Martyr · 1669
Ain't No Mountain High Enough · 1967
You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think it counts as love.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower · 2012
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
The Belle of Bowling Green · 1904
But if you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It's not perfect but it's real.
Before Midnight · 2013
The Name of the Rose · 1980
St. Elmo's Fire · 1985
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