“Love is beautiful only when you are secretly loved by a stranger.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Source: The Phanariot Manuscript https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscrisul_fanariot
“Love is beautiful only when you are secretly loved by a stranger.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.”
Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine
Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
Eustache Deschamps (1346–1406) French poet
Tuit estrangier l'aiment et ameront,
Car pour deduit et pour estre jolis,
Jamais cité tele ne trouveront:
Riens ne se puet comparer a Paris.
"Quant j'ay la terre et mer avironnée", line 17; text and translation from Ian S. Laurie and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi (eds.), David Curzon and Jeffrey Fiskin (trans.) Eustache Deschamps: Selected Poems (London: Routledge, 2003) pp. 62-63.
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin
Giacomo Balla (1871–1958) Italian artist
(Manuscript, 1913); as quoted at dekorera.tumblr: futurist manifesto of men's clothing http://dekorera.tumblr.com/post/3212646425/futurist-manifesto-of-mens-clothing-by-giacomo <br class="br">Futurist Manifesto of Men's clothing,' 1913/1914