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Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

“I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.”

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German physicist, inventor, and writer, known for his research in electricity and magnetism. He proposed Lichtenberg's law in electricity and invented various scientific instruments. more

“She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.”

Love Self Stories Passion Moral Worry Be Good Pursue Torn Vocation Jersey Something You Love Moral Of The Story

Book:The Morning After: American Successes and Excesses, 1981-1986

Source: The Morning After: American Successes and Excesses, 1981-1986

“Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.”

Way Love Desire Parent Sides Marriage Poverty Unions Absence Opposition Incompatibility

Book:Cyril Connolly: journal and memoir

Source: Cyril Connolly: journal and memoir

“Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.”

“Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.”

Love Age Mother Night Song Father Moral Neighbor Curse Comment Rope Ladders Moonlight Romanticism Correctness Venus Propriety Don Juan Juan Yardsticks

Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.”

Love Heart Earth Joy Passion Heaven Love Is Common Divine Flower Kings Sacred God Love Queens Beast Royal Worthless Perfume Magician Clay Wondrous Kings And Queens

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

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