Quotations: Love
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"The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable."
-John Cheever
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"The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists."
-Charles Dickens
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"Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead."
-Conrad Aiken
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"The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep."
-Alan Patrick Herbert
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"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable."
-Henry Ward Beecher
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"The course of true love never did run smooth."
-William Shakespeare
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"Love and a cough cannot be hid."
-George Herbert
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"A lover without indescretion is no lover at all."
-Thomas Hardy
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"To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another."
-Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz
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"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."
-Jorge Luis Borges
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"Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret."
-Aphra Behn
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"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known."
-Walt Disney
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"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything."
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"The only reward for love is the experience of loving."
-John LeCarre
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"The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident."
-Sir Hugh Walpoe
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"Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."
-Antoine de SaintExupery
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"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion."
-Miguel de Unamuno
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"I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
in Whining poetry."
-John Donne
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"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."
-John Donne
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"If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving."
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"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."
-Voltaire
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"If you judge someone, you have no time to love them."
-Mother Teresa
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"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear."
-The Bible
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"Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause."
-Benedict Spinoza
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"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
-Rita Rudner
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"Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times."
-Rita Rudner
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"Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice."
-Nora Roberts
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"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them."
-Ogden Nash
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"If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?"
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"Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other."
-Euripides
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"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."
-Anna Louise Strong
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"Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough."
-Dinah Shore
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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
-George Bernard Shaw
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"Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same."
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