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We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will. And we shall continue to love you.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is supreme and unconditional. Like is nice, but limited.
— Duke Ellington
Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.
— Duke Ellington
Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
— Edith Stein
You can be at all fronts, wherever there is grief, in the power of the cross. Your compassionate love takes you everywhere, this love from the divine heart. Its precious blood is poured everywhere, soothing, healing, saving.
— Edith Stein
I want - I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that -categories like that- won't exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on earth will matter.
— Edith Wharton
She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.
— Edith Wharton
She pronounced the word married as if her voice caressed it. It seemed a rustling covert leading to enchanted glades.
— Edith Wharton
There was such love as she had dreamed, and she meant to go on believing in it and cherishing the thought that she was worthy of it.
— Edith Wharton
The affair, in short, had been of the kind that most of the young men of his age had been through and emerged from with calm consciences and an undisturbed belief in the abysmal distinction between the women one loved and respected and those one enjoyed—and pitied.
— Edith Wharton
Ah, he would take her beyond---beyond the ugliness, the pettiness, the attrition and corrosion of her soul.
— Edith Wharton
Do you know, I began to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them—children, duties, visits, bores, relations—the things that protect married people from each other. We've been too close together—that has been our sin. We've seen the nakedness of each other's souls.
— Edith Wharton