Oscar Wilde. De Profundis (№ 104648)

Love is nourished by the imagination and therefore makes us wiser than we ourselves suspect, better than we ourselves think, nobler than we really are. It helps to understand life in all its fullness; she, and she alone enables us to understand other people and their relationships in the worldly and spiritual spheres. The only one that can perfectly nourish Love, whereas Hatred can be anything.