“There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.”

— Boris Vian

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Boris Vian 1

French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator… 1920–1959

Alex Flinn (1966) American children's writer

Source: A Kiss in Time

“Love was above everything else, and there was no hatred in love, only the occasional mistake.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

“Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.”

David Icke (1952) English writer and public speaker

Variant: Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.
Source: Davidicke.com

“But like everything else, love changed.”

Ann Brashares book The Last Summer

Source: The Last Summer

“Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.”

Margaret J. Wheatley (1941) American writer

Source: Turning to one another (2002), p. 19

“The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted — you will find out at once how to arrange it all.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky book The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Source: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), V
Context: A dream! What is a dream? And is not our life a dream? I will say more. Suppose that this paradise will never come to pass (that I understand), yet I shall go on preaching it. And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted — you will find out at once how to arrange it all. And yet it's an old truth which has been told and retold a billion times — but it has not formed part of our lives! The consciousness of life is higher than life, the knowledge of the laws of happiness is higher than happiness — that is what one must contend against. And I shall. If only everyone wants it, it can be arranged at once.