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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If the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

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William J. Brennan, Jr.
Source
Eisentadt v. Baird
Medium
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Genre
Legal writing
Language
English
Time
1972 1970s 20th century
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Citation

Brennan, William J, Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Eisentadt v. Baird. United States Reports, vol. 405, 22 Mar. 1972, pp. 438-472. supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/405/438/.

Another quote about Love

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Sextus Propertius

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Nature of love Love

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Sextus Propertius
Source
Elegies
Medium
Poem
Language
Latin
Time
24 BC 20s BC 1st century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Sextus Propertius. Elegies. c. 24 BC, bk. 2.

Current Citation

Sextus Propertius. Elegies, edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Harvard University Press, 1990, bk. 2.

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Happiness is the deferred fulfillment of a prehistoric wish. That is why wealth brings so little happiness; money is not an infantile wish.

Sigmund Freud

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Happiness

Author

Sigmund Freud
Medium
Letter
Statement Type
Definition
Language
German
Time
1898 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Letter to Wilhelm Fliess. 16 Jan. 1898.

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Freud, Sigmund. The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904, translated and edited by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Harvard University Press, 1985.