"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

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“Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.”
“Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.”
“Nurture your felt love for nature. Never deny it. That love is the eons, the purifying intelligence, beauty and diversity of nature sustaining us in its perfection. Our disconnection from this love and its advice produces our hurt, greed and destructiveness. We must reconnect and restore its peaceful voice in our thoughts, soul and surroundings.”
“Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.”
“There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, "now what?”
“If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved”
“A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.”

Source : Italo Calvino (2013). “Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985”, p.454, Princeton University Press
“Architecture is the work of nations”

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