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  <p>Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover<br>
     will require that you continually have the subtlety<br>
     of the very wise, the flexibility of the child,<br>
     the sensitivity of the artist,<br>
     the understanding of the philosopher,<br>
     the acceptance of the saint,<br>
     the tolerance of the scholar and<br>
     the fortitude of the certain.<br><br>

     Leo Buscaglia</p>

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    <p>We perceive when love begins and when it declines<br>
       by our embarrassment when alone together.<br><br>

       Jean de la Bruyere</p>
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  <p>Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such<br>
     a way as to complete and fulfill them,<br>
     for it alone takes them and joins them<br>
     by what is deepest in themselves.<br><br>

     Pierre Teilhard de Chardin</p>

  <p>Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.<br><br>

     Margaret Cho.</p>

  <p>All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame<br>
     All are but ministers of Love And feed his sacred flame.<br><br>

     Samuel Taylor Coleridge</p>
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