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Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Life with another person is always difficult.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

I felt along with her – not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can’t be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.