“It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for — or ignored.”
What Do You See, Madam? (1932)
Context: If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.
It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for — or ignored.
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Context: But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE and TIME. These, as spun and woven for us from before Birth itself, to clothe our celestial ME for dwelling here, and yet to blind it, — lie all-embracing, as the universal canvas, or warp and woof, whereby all minor Illusions, in this Phantasm Existence, weave and paint themselves. In vain, while here on Earth, shall you endeavor to strip them off; you can, at best, but rend them asunder for moments, and look through.
“Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must.”
Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory
Variant: Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.
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“I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps.”
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While My Guitar Gently Weeps (1968)
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