Love is as implacable as it is un-appeasable. Nay more,
Love is merciless: as merciless to its votary as to its victim: For
Love would slay rather than surrender; would for-swear rather than forgo.
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Some loves, like some fevers, render the patient immune—at all events to that particular kind of contagion.
Many lovers are vaccinated in early youth.
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Only love can comprehend and reciprocate love. This is why,
If, of two sensitive human souls, the one loves passionately and the other not at all, the other is unwittingly blind and deaf to love's clamors and claims: the one may ardently urge; the other but passively yields:—
Only the famished understand the pangs of the hungered.