You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.
Simone SignoretRead
If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.
Interpretation
The quote humorously acknowledges a shared attraction, implying admiration in the context of love.
Simone Signoret's quote highlights the complexities of love through a playful acknowledgment of her husband's appeal. By suggesting that another woman sharing an interest in him indicates 'good taste,' she brings a light-heartedness to the notion of romantic competition, emphasizing that mutual attraction can be viewed positively rather than as a mere rivalry.
In practice
This quote can be shared at a wedding toast to celebrate the complexity of love.
You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.
When I was young and beautiful, I never appeared on the cover of a magazine.
Hordes of young girls never copied my hairdos or the way I talk or the way I dress. I have, therefore, never had to go through the stress of perpetuating an image that's often the equivalent of one particular song that forever freezes a precise moment of one's youth.
Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.
They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and loved morphine and Demerol and tequila and pulque, women and men. I will shrug my illusion of shoulders and answer that I am a water woman, not a vessel, not something you can sail or charter. I am instead the tributary, the river, the fluid source, and the sea itself. I am all her rainy implications. And what do you, with your rusted compass, know of love?
I am so small I can hardly be seen. How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things.
A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a legend of itself, turn its beginnings into myth; so I don't want to assert that it was love; but I have no doubt there was a kind of clairvoyance at work: I immediately felt, sensed, grasped the essence of Lucie's being or, to be more precise, the essence of what she was later to become for me; Lucie had revealed herself to me the way religious truth reveals itself.
Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.
Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
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