“Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force. Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning.”
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by
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Paulo Coelho 844
Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947Related quotes

“Dream and love are just words - until you decide to experience them”

For the Love of Women, p. 239
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Context: Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many women. Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.
But sex is something else. I'm not sure that there can ever be too much sex. To me, it's another one of our daily requirements — like eating. If I go twenty-four hours without it, I get hungry. Sex needs to be open and fun, free and happy. It's whatever you make it, and I try my hardest to create situations where me and my woman can enjoy ourselves — all of ourselves — without our inhibitions getting in the way.
You got to set your mind right and the rest will come to you naturally. No restrictions, no hang-ups, no stupid rules, no formalities, no forbidden fruit — just everyone getting and giving as much as he and she can.

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