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Quotes about Attachment

It is only that I want to be with you and not with anybody else - but you would get bored if I go on saying this, only it comes back and back till it drips of my pen.
- Virginia Woolf
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
- Charles Dickens
I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disninterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.
- Charles Dickens
It's all very true! It's a weakness to be so affectionate, but I can't help it.
- Charles Dickens
I have not bestowed my tenderness anywhere. I have never had any such thing.
- Charles Dickens
Why did you get married?" said Scrooge. "Because I fell in love." "Because you fell in love!" growled Scrooge,
- Charles Dickens
I loved Joe - perhaps for no better reason in those early days than because the dear fellow let me love him
- Charles Dickens
"You must love this place very much," said Miss Fenn... "So many homes are like twenty others. But this is unique, and you seem to know every cranny of it. I dare say you could never love another home so well." "Oh, I carry it with me," said Deronda... "To most men their early home is no more than a memory of their early years... The image is never marred. There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side."
- George Eliot
You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars. Unfortunately, that's not the way our culture works, and we do collectively buy into this idea that things that are more expensive probably have more value.
- Moby
Men feel more bereft without a woman than women will feel bereft without a man.
- Dennis Prager
Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
- Thomas Merton
You were not contented while you had her, and to weep for her now is childish.
- Thomas Paine