“One can't love humanity. One can only love people.”
Source: The Ministry of Fear
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English writer, playwright and literary critic 1904–1991Related quotes
Last Notebook (1942) p. 84
First and Last Notebooks (1970)
Source: The Art of Loving (1956), Ch. 2
Context: In spite of the universalistic spirit of the monotheistic Western religions and of the progressive political concepts that are expressed in the idea "that all men are created equal," love for mankind has not become a common experience. Love for mankind is looked upon as an achievement which, at best, follows love for an individual or as an abstract concept to be realized only in the future. But love for man cannot be separated from love for one individual. To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual, in so far as it is divorced from love for man, can refer only to the superficial and to the accidental; of necessity it remains shallow.
“There's only one thing that can heal the heart… Only one… It's love, Gaara.”
“If one can't be trusted in love, one can't be trusted in anything. Some things can't be forgiven.”
Source: The Kiss of Deception
“Only love can make one happy.”
On n'est heureux que par l'amour.
Letter 155: Le Vicomte de Valmont to le Chevalier Danceny. Trans. P.W.K. Stone (1961). http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Liaisons_dangereuses_-_Lettre_155
Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)
29 December 1943
The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)
Variant: You can be lonely even when you're loved by many people, since you're still not anybody's "one and only".
Source: Cliffs Notes on Frank's The Diary of Anne Frank
