“You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.”

“We always love... despite; and that "despite" covers an infinity.”

“The correct understanding of life, let me tell you, is love despite everything. Love despite everything, that is the aim and object of life. Love, you see, is the only thing that pays in the long run, even though it might seem a dead loss in the short run.”

“Love is something like the notion that, despite its suffering, Being is good and you should serve Being.”

“Love finds you when you start feeling incomplete in life. Love finds the good in you despite having millions of flaws in you. Love holds your hand and removes the emptiness of your life and you start loving yourself.”

“The fact that a woman you love reaches a point in the relationship where she ceases to love you, and despite that you can never bring yourself to scorn or despise her, is very rare indeed.”

“One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.”

“But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.”

“With you, my life felt indeed like a fantastic adventure - despite our ordinary circumstances, your love imbued everything we did with secret riches.”

“My plea to you is this: despite your sadness, do not forget how happy you have made me; do not forget that I loved a man who loved me in return, and this was the greatest gift I could ever hope to receive.”