It's the niceties that make the difference - fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. . . . It is in our follies that we are one. It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving. Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.