„To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia — to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.“

— H.L. Mencken

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„Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.“
— Margaret Atwood
„A young woman in love always looks like Patience on a monument Smiling at Grief.“
— Jane Austen
„a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief“
— William Shakespeare
„This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty… what you will.“
— Henry Miller
„We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love.“
— Jean Vanier
„Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„Woman was God’s second mistake.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty … what you will.“
— Henry Miller