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

“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.”

“It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.”

“She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.”

“But like everything else, love changed.”

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”

“Every living being on earth loves life above all else.”

“Love for life — love for people, above all respect for their values and traditions, and for everything that can give deep meaning to it.”

“Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. Hatred which is completely vanquished by love, passes into love; and love is thereupon greater, than id hatred had not preceded it.”

“Only love is real.
Everything else illusion
Adding to the confusion of the way we connive
At being alive.
Tracing a line till we can define
The thing that allows us to feel.
Only love is real.”