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Quotes About Love

When I wrote to him, I wanted my letters to be sprightly, trivial, indifferent. In spite of myself, I imbued them with my love. I would have liked to make it seem powerful, sure of itself and sure of me, but I infused it, despite myself, with all my anxiety.
~ Jean Genet
Hell has degrees, so does love
~ Jean Genet
My love is always sad."' "That's right. As soon as I kiss you, you get sad. I've noticed it." "Does it bother you?" "No, it doesn't matter. I'm happy instead of you. I murmur to myself I love you... I love you... I love you...
~ Jean Genet
I love you as if you were in my belly. You're not my sweetheart, you're myself. My heart or my sex. A branch of me.
~ Jean Genet
Slowly but surely I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her
~ Jean Genet
For I do not love the oppressed. I love those whom I love, who are always handsome and sometimes oppressed but stand up and rebel
~ Jean Genet
Nasze ?ycie rodzinne,prawo naszych domów,nie przypomina ani trochÄ™ waszych domów.Kochamy siÄ™,ale jest to miÅ'o?? bez miÅ'oÅ›ci
~ Jean Genet
one must love the Circus and despise the world.
~ Jean Genet
Divine s'offrait à la nuit afin d'être dévorée de tendresse par elle et jamais plus vomie
~ Jean Genet
She denied herself the luxury and beauty that kill reverie. Love too. Once upon a time love had placed her on earth and kept her there with the grip of a wrestler who is used to pinning huskies to the mat.
~ Jean Genet
My heart to my mother, my cock to the whores, my head to the hangman.
~ Jean Genet
I leave you free to imagine any dialogue you please. Choose whatever may charm you. Have it, if you like, that they hear the voice of the blood, or that they fall in love at first sight... Conceive the wildest improbabilities. Have it that the depths of their beings are thrilled at accosting each other in slang. Tangle them suddenly in a swift embrace or a brotherly kiss. Do whatever you like.
~ Jean Genet
When I beheld you, suddenly - for perhaps a second - I had the strength to reject everything that wasn't you and to laugh at the illusion. But my shoulders are very frail. I was unable to bear the weight of the world's condemnation. And I began to hate you when everything about you would have kindled my love and when love would have made men's contempt unbearable, and their contempt would have made my love unbearable. The fact is, I hate you.
~ Jean Genet
Deixou de existir a nossa terra. Quem ama, ama o mundo ou não ama nada.
~ Jean Giono
Now, once one has got to know these people at all, it's apparent that they love the wind to distraction and that they'd even pay to have wind. They've no need to pay, they've got it, solidly and permanently.
~ Jean Giono
tout ça vient parce que il est le père des caresses. Il a un mot pour chacun :
~ Jean Giono
s'aimaient comme des gens libres. Vous me direz : « comme des bêtes » ; et puis après
~ Jean Giono
L'histoire a une morale ; proférée par Amédée, elle est animale. « Voilà : la vie était devant eux. Ah, j'étais sans souci de ce côté. La vie était devant eux parce qu'ils s'aimaient et surtout parce qu'ils s'aimaient comme des gens libres. Vous
~ Jean Giono
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
~ Jean Giraudoux
It is bad to love life if one loves it like a coward.
~ Jean Guéhenno
She had learned not to expect love, and wasn't even sure she wanted it. This was the most profound wisdom she'd managed to glean from the fifteen years she had spent in her mother's presence.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
She knew that she had brought him the very safety and sense of belonging that was so important for a child, but which he had never experienced in his family of origin.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
respected your mother, and she honors that.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
When we're young, and we dream of love and fulfillment, we think perhaps of moon-drenched Parisian nights or walks along the beach at sundown. No one tells us that the greatest moments of a lifetime are fleeting, unplanned and nearly always catch us off guard.
~ Jean Harper