"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness."

Pavese, Cesare on infatuation
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"Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless."

Lawrence, D. H. on love
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"Men often give love for sex, women often give sex for love."

Unknown, Source on women
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"If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone."

Oakley, Ann on love
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"We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love."

Thích Nhat Hanh on love
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"We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us."

Stael, Germaine De on love
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"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."

Carmichael, Amy on love
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"We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving"

Meltzer, Bernard on giving
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"One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return."

Orwell, George on children
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"The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation."

Greer, Germaine on family
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"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor on love
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"Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love."

Traherne, Thomas on conceit
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"The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance."

Hwang, Brian on ignorance
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