"Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love."

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Source : Eleanor Catton (2013). “The Luminaries”, p.563, Granta Books

Eleanor Catton

#Love Quotes #Together Quotes #Reason Quotes

“For the material, at best, is only temporal, or temporary, while that which may be built from spiritual desire, spiritual purposes, is eternal.”
“In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.”
“Jealousy is the fear of comparison.”
“I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals.”
“We say yes to the society of solidarity and democracy where free people together, in mutual respect and under mutual responsibility, shape a life where everyone has equal opportunities and equal value.”
“I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.”

Source : Max Beerbohm (2010). “Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story”, p.51, The Floating Press
“That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you heard Howard Cunningham talking to Marian about shopping? Too many.”
“The opportunity is in the problem. The moment I see a problem, I immediately begin to think about the opportunities that can be created by trying to solve it.”

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