Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
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The Lover's Watch, "Four o'Clock General Conversation" (1686)Aphra Behn
When forever becomes a place...when forever ceases to be just a word… when it ceases to be a just a measurement of time…but instead becomes a place where soul mates can dance to the song in their hearts, that is a reflection of true love.
Steve Maraboli
When pleasure is made a business, it ceases to be pleasure.
John Lancaster Spalding
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving — in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation — never ceases to love. I will go further; he never ceases to love the same person. You know the experiment that a contemporary physiologist tried with a series of portraits to determine in what the indefinable resemblances called family likeness consisted? He took photographs of twenty persons of the same blood, then he photographed these photographs on the same plate, one over the other. In this way he discovered the common features which determined the type. Well, I am convinced that if we could try a similar experiment and photograph one upon another the pictures of the different women whom the same man has loved or thought he had loved in the course of his life we should discover that all these women resembled one another. The most inconsistent have cherished one and the same being through five or six or even twenty different embodiments.
Paul Bourget
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
William Hazlitt
Behn, Aphra
Bechdel, Alison
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