„Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.“

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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„Because in spite of this longing, I know that I shall purchase happiness at high price if I return; that new falsehood may betray me, new tyranny oppress me, and above all I feel that with this man I must lose more and more the love of all good things, so strong is his influence, so unprincipled his nature. My only hope is that I may save his soul and yet not lose my own. Can I, dare I do this?“
— Louisa May Alcott
„I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.“
— Paulo Coelho
„Like all Herondales, his ability to love without measure, without end, was both his great gift and his great curse.“
— Cassandra Clare