“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
Act II, scene 4, line 14 (454).
Variant translations:
There are as many opinions as there are people: each has his own view.
There are as many opinions as there are people: each has his own correct way.
There are as many opinions as there are people: everyone has their own way of doing things.
Phormio
“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
“So many ways to be deemed unclean”
Frances Bean Cobain (1992) American artist
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“To be completed is to be finished in so many ways!”
R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002) American writer
Source: Arrive at Easterwine (1971), Ch. 6
Context: Gaetan had always had a terrible finality about him. Was this his great sin — that he was already completed? I will intercede for him tonight in my own not entirely mechanical way. To be completed is to be finished in so many ways! May that twinkling man Gaetan be undone a little and saved.
Harry Chapin (1942–1981) American musician
Live version
Flowers are Red
Song lyrics, Living Room Suite (1978)
“It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
“There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead.”
Nicole Krauss The History of Love
Source: The History of Love