“Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last by Time's all-severing wave?”
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“Faithful, indeed, is the spirit that remembers After such years of change and suffering!”
“Then did I learn how existence could be cherished, Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy.”
“Thou — Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.”
“Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree.”
“The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly?”
“What use is it to slumber here: Though the heart be sad and weary?”
“And the rose ray of the closing day May promise a brighter morrow.”
“I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.”
“Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.”
“I have never lost the feeling of contradiction that lies behind all knowledge.”
“The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world.”
“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.”
“Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept.”
“It seems to me, Govinda, that Love is the most important thing in the world.”