975 private quotes tagged love

“Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.” — Christopher Marlowe

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“There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.” — Lorraine Hansberry

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“The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.” — Helen Hayes

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“The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.” — Anne Campbell

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“Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.” — Theodor Adorno

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“Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.” — William Congreve

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“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.” — Alexander Smith

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“To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.” — Henry Drummond

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“If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.” — Kristin Chenoweth

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“The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.” — Jean Racine

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“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott

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“Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.” — Tammy Wynette

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“When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.” — Gwendolyn Brooks

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“We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.” — Bernard Meltzer

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“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.” — Theodor Adorno

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“Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.” — Miguel de Unamuno

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“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.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.” — Mignon McLaughlin

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“Ultimately love is everything.” — M. Scott Peck

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“For love is immortality.” — Emily Dickinson

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“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.” — Robert Browning

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“Love conquers all.” — Virgil

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“To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.” — Alphonse de Lamartine

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