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"I caught the happy virus last night
When I was out singing beneath the stars.
It is remarkably contagious -
So kiss me."
— شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī (The Subject Tonight Is Love: Sixty Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz)

tags: happy, virus
13 people liked it

"Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; then to that twenty, add a hundred more; a thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, to make that thousand up a million. treble that million, and when that is done, let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun!"
— Robert Herrick

2 people liked it

"For several long moments we remained locked together, and I think I covered her hair with small sacred kisses, her perfume crucifying me with memories."
— Anne Rice (Merrick)

4 people liked it

"Tell me, if I caught you one day
And kissed the sole of your foot,
Wouldn't you limp a little then,
Affraid to crush my kiss?..."
— Nichita Stanescu

4 people liked it

"To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first."
— Janeane Garofalo

6 people liked it

"He smiled in a way that made me want to kiss him right on the spot. Or the lips. Whichever was closer."
— Shannon Hale

tags: attraction, humor
26 people liked it

"Kiss me and you'll see how important I am."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: importance, kissing, plath, self, sylvia, worth
9 people liked it

""A kiss is just a kiss until it happens to you A hug is just a hug until you do it with the one your thinking of A dream is just a dream until it comes true Love is just a word until it's proven to you""
— tanya maya

tags: hey, me, that-s
9 people liked it

"When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)

3 people liked it

"Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked up at each other for the last time."
— Jack Kerouac

3 people liked it

"Today is the time of my youth
I drink wine because it is my solace;
Do not blame me, although it is bitter it is pleasant,
It is bitter because it is my life."
— Omar Khayyám

8 people liked it

"Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."
— Omar Khayyám (Rubaiyat)

20 people liked it

"Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult."
— Anne Rice (Interview With the Vampire)

tags: evil, good
162 people liked it

"I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius"
— Anne Rice

38 people liked it

"Take me from this earth
an endless night-
this, the end of life.
From the dark I feel your lips
and taste your bloody kiss.
"
— Anne Rice (Interview With The Vampire)

55 people liked it

"Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt"
— Anne Rice

tags: death
28 people liked it

"I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose."
— Anne Rice (The Vampire Lestat)

39 people liked it

"Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!"
— Anne Rice (The Queen of the Damned)

tags: bad
51 people liked it

"...every moment must be first known and then savored."
— Anne Rice (Interview With the Vampire)

tags: life
9 people liked it

"It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course."
— Anne Rice (The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty)

tags: nature
5 people liked it

"Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves."
— Anne Rice

8 people liked it

"Just remember... life without me would be even more unbearable."
— Anne Rice

19 people liked it

"Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed."
— Anne Rice (The Witching Hour)

tags: anne, hour, rice, the, witching
7 people liked it

"None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are."
— Anne Rice (The Vampire Lestat)

345 people liked it

"What you seek is seeking you."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: attraction, rumi, sufi
42 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,488 people liked it

"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: blues, god, life, music
529 people liked it

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
4,355 people liked it

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: corruption, dark, fighting, monsters, side, soul
356 people liked it

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: dance, dancing, music
335 people liked it

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

275 people liked it

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

242 people liked it

"There are no facts, only interpretations."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: perspective, truth
223 people liked it

"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: agama, agnosticism, prayer, religion
207 people liked it

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: faith
144 people liked it

"Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

101 people liked it

"Art is the proper task of life. "
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: art, inspirational, life
88 people liked it

"Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

73 people liked it

"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

89 people liked it

"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

52 people liked it

"Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

56 people liked it

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: perception, philosophy, scientific-process, truth
48 people liked it

"We have art in order not to die of the truth. "
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: art
51 people liked it

"Man is the cruelest animal."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: animals, cruelty, evil, man
53 people liked it

"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

39 people liked it

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

45 people liked it

"Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

25 people liked it

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

25 people liked it

"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: lies, lying, vision, visionaries
15 people liked it

"Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human)

21 people liked it

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