"It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.“
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."
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"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."
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"A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime."
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"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is."
-Hans Urs von Balthasar
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"At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish."
-Hillary Clinton
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"Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."
-Milan Kundera
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"I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump."
-Zora Neale Hurston
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"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair."
-Abraham Joshua Heschel
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"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."
-E. M. Forster
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