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“The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.”

Knows Doe Imagination Hurt Lovers Equal Tasks Strikes Spots Vulnerable Torture Demon It Hurts Inventing Lovers And Friends

Author:Anais Nin

“By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.”

Knows Mind Sound Music Fire Lovers Equal Lows Wounds Warrior Temper Animated Bleeding

Book:The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice of the author

Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice of the author

“Happy is love or friendship when returned-- The lovers whose pure flames have equal burned.”

Love Friendship Lovers Pure Equal Flames Burned

Author:Bion of Smyrna

“In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid life a fascinating and important theater figure whose public and private lives were of equal interest. In this carefully researched book, Webster's colleagues, lovers, and friends shine as brightly as she did. I wish she were here to read it.”

Important Book Found Wish Interest Perfect Subjects Figures Lovers Equal Theater Shining Fascinating Colleagues Vivid Private Life Biographers Lovers And Friends

Author:Marian Seldes

“No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures that never cloy.”

Writing Book Use Pleasure Lovers Equal Increase Library Possession Riches Consumed Librarian Treasured

Author:John Alfred Langford

“At this point, we are living one of the greatest experiments in humankind - to create something that has, throughout history, been considered a contradiction in terms - a passionate marriage. Passion has always existed, but it took place somewhere else. Everything that we wanted from a traditional marriage - companionship, family, children, economic support, a best friend, a passionate lover, a trusted confidante, an intellectual equal - we are asking from one person what an entire village once provided. And couples are crumbling under the weight of so much expectation.”

Children Passion Term Support Economic Couple Lovers Equal Intellectual Expectations Passionate Contradiction Trusted Companionship Passionate Love

Author:Esther Perel

“There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we love that the guilt with which we are born becomes intolerable, and since all those whom we love intensely and continuously grow part of us, and since we hate ourselves in them, so we torture ourselves and them together.”

Two Pain Together Hate Grows Born Hurt Lovers Equal Guilt Torture No Pain Two Lovers

Author:Cyril Connolly