“A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.”
Source: The Imitation of Christ
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Thomas à Kempis 41
German canon regular 1380–1471Related quotes
“The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.”
Source: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
“So many lovers, yet there is no love.”
Birds of the Mind and Chameleons of the Heart (1978).
“However dead a past love may be, new lovers are much…upset by them.”
Los amores pasados siempre ofenden a los amantes nuevos, por muy muertos que estén aquéllos.
Source: Todas las Almas [All Souls] (1989), p. 93
"Freedom for Whom", as translated in Brecht on Brecht : An Improvisation (1967) by George Tabori, p. 18
Context: Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles
Are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin.
And so, instead of embracing them, Let us demand the freedom of the elbow
To knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat,
Provided he loves peace,
Is a greater lover of the arts
Than any so-called art-lover
Who loves the arts of war.
“I am not a dog lover. A dog lover to me means a dog that is in love with another dog.”
"I Like Dogs", For Men (April 1939); reprinted in People Have More Fun Than Anybody (1994); slightly paraphrased in "And So to Medve", Thurber's Dogs (1955)
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