Love is two people mutually feeding each other, not one living on the soul of the other like a ghoul.

Bessie Head

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Nature of love Love

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Sello

Author

Bessie Head

Source

A Question of Power

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

Occupation

Writer

From

South Africa Africa

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Citation

Head, Bessie. A Question of Power. Davis-Poynter, 1973, pt. 1.

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The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

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O happy race of mortals, if your hearts are ruled, as is the universe, by Love!

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The Consolation of Philosophy

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Genre
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Language
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Time
523 520s 6th century
Era
Middle Ages
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Original Citation

Boethius. De Consolatione Philosophiae [On the Consolation of Philosophy]. 524, bk. 2, poem 8.

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Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy, translated by Victor Watts. Penguin Classics, 1999, bk. 2, poem 8.

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When a man spends the least possible number of movements over one definite action, that is grace.

Anton Chekhov

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Grace

Author

Anton Chekhov
Medium
Letter
Statement Type
Definition
Language
Russian
Time
1899 1890s 19th century
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Chekhov, Anton. Letter to Alexi Peshkov (Maxim Gorky). 3 Jan. 1899.

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Chekhov, Anton. "To Alexi Peshkov (Gorky), 3 January 1899, Yalta." A Life in Letters, translated by Rosamund Bartlett and Anthony Phillips. Penguin Classics, 2004.