#intensity

"The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate."

"In the long run, even a marathon looks like a sprint. This is how I can love with such Roger Bannisteresque intensity."

"I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep."

"My candle burns at both ends;It will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—It gives a lovely light!"

"I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)"

"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know."

"People happy in love have an air of intensity."