John Ciardi
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
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Miguel de Unamuno
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
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Brigitte Bardot
Do you have to have a reason for loving?
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Benjamin Disraeli
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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Barbara de Angelis
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
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Jean Racine
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
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Natalie Clifford Barney
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
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Pearl Bailey
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
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Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
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James M. Barrie
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
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Nicholas Sparks
I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.
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Mignon McLaughlin
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
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Henri Matisse
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
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David Viscott
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
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Eric Hoffer
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
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Dylan Thomas
Though lovers be lost love shall not.
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Zelda Fitzgerald
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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Elizabeth Bowen
When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
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Erich Segal
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
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John Morton
There is no limit to the power of loving.
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Theodor Adorno
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
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Gustave Flaubert
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Christopher Marlowe
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
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Fulton J. Sheen
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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Alphonse de Lamartine
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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David Herbert Lawrence
You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
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Thomas Fuller
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
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Helen Hunt Jackson
When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.
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Billie Holiday
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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John Donne
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Tammy Wynette
Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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R. Buckminster Fuller
Love is metaphysical gravity.
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Friedrich Schiller
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
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Lord Byron
Who loves, raves.
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George Harrison
With our love, we could save the world.
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John Dryden
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Francois Rabelais
To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
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Sinclair Lewis
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
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M. Scott Peck
Ultimately love is everything.
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Bryant H. McGill
True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.
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Marc Chagall
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
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Werner Erhard
You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.
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Gertrude Stein
It is very easy to love alone.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Who so loves believes the impossible.
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Arthur Rimbaud
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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Lawrence Durrell
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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Jean de la Bruyere
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
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Aphra Behn
Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
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Ovid
All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
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