“The joys of love… last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Source: The Joys of Love
“Love, the secret and unofficial heart of pair-bonding behavior, is a force to be reckoned with but never predicted. Love supersedes all other directives and cancels previous obligations. The shared look of love is love’s preview, presenting a foretaste of the joys and sorrows to come, and setting into motion the automatic mating machinery upon which the success and stability of the State depends.”
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Short fiction, The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)
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Swem nie von liebe leit geschach,
dem geschach ouch liep von liebe nie.
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Act i. Sc. 3.
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Source: Anna Karenina