“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.”
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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
Source: The Analects, Chapter VI
“Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.”
“Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.”
“The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.”
February, 1932
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
“I know how to love those
Who love me, how to hate.”
Be bold! That's one way
“I love women who don't let themselves be tamed. Those who scratch and bite, but know how to love.”
Original: Adoro le donne che non si lasciano domare. Quelle che graffiano e mordono, ma sanno amare.
Source: prevale.net
“To love is to be faithful to those who cheat on us.”
Teatro Quase Completo - Page 440, by Nelson Rodrigues - Published by Tempo Brasileiro, 1965
My Day (1935–1962)
Context: It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. (1 April 1939)