#sense

As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for blocks, I can smell you, maybe, for a few feet, but I can only touch on contact, taste as I devour ↗

— William H. Gass

#senses #love

Absense diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. ↗

— Francois De La Rochefoucault

#love #love

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life. ↗

— Gelett Burgess

#interest #life #nonsense #requires #serious

Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. ↗

— Jane Austen

#jane-austen #love #marianne-dashwood #sense-and-sensibility #world

That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense. ↗

— Jonathan Harris

#ever #first #first time #got #guest

But common sense has not place in first love and never has. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#first-love #loving-someone #love

Love has a shape, but no color. You’re probably wondering, “If it’s transparent, how do you know what shape it is?” Good question. Well, for one thing, I put it together, and for another, I’m currently wearing it like body armor (though to the casual observer, I appear naked).
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— Jarod Kintz

#body #color #love #naked #nonsense

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. ↗

— Henry Kissinger

#peace #soldier #war #men

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#nothing #talk #love

I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," FFlewddur said, "We aren't really expected to. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#girls #men #men-and-women #sense #men