"It is a feeling at once stimulating and flat, to know that someone you do not love is in love with you."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

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"Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, f…"

— Oscar Wilde

Literature1854–1900

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"I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you."

— Jenny Downham

Literature1964

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"It is useless to tell the missionaries that Hindu sâdhanâ has nothing to do with buying a piece of land, building some stylised houses on it, exhibiting pretentious signboards, putting on a particular…"

— Sita Ram Goel

Literature1921–2003

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"There is no place for conflicts, there is no place for hatred in this world. We will teach love to the world. Hatred is very painful, it is agonizing, it is tiresome and disgusting; love on the other …"

— Adnan Oktar

Religion1956

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