17 Quotes by Bertrand Russell about Love




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    To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts deadالخوفُ من الحبِّ يعني الخوفَ من الحياةِ، وأولئكَ الذينَ يخافونَ الحياةَ هم بالفعلِ ثلاثة أرباع موتى!

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    ...love must feel the ego of the beloved person as important as one's own ego, and must realize the other's feelings and wishes as though they were one's own.

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    Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.

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    The instinct is not completely satisfied unless a man's whole being, mental quite as much as physical, enters into the relation. Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give; unconsciously, if not consciously, they feel this and the resulting disappointment inclines them towards envy, oppression, and cruelty.

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