"Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on love
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"Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it."

Allen, Woody on love
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"Love is a great beautifier."

Alcott, Louisa May on love
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"The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies."

Montapert, Alfred A. on achievement
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"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."

Jowett, Benjamin on achievement
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"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."

Johnson, Samuel on achievement
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"I want to put a ding in the universe."

Jobs, Steve on achievement
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"I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation."

Osgood, Samuel on love
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"The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love."

Reik, Theodor on love
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"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?"

Marlowe, Christopher on love
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"A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes."

Luce, Clare Boothe on love
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"An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception."

Lokes, Harold on love
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"Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge."

Levine, Stephen on love
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"Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear."

Lennon, John on love
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"If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on love
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"There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on love
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"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on love
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"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

King Jr. Martin Luther on love
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"Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul."

Joyce, James on love
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"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

Jong, Erica on love
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"Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

Jones, Franklin P. on love
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"To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia."

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"Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does."

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"Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee."

Proverb, Spanish on love
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"A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple."

Proverb, Japanese on love
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"He who is not impatient is not in love."

Proverb, Italian on love
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"Love laughs at locksmiths."

Proverb on love
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"Love is a serious mental disease."

Plato on love
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"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."

Plato on love
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"Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring."

Perelman, Sydney Joseph on love
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"No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first."

Pavese, Cesare on love
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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing."

Nin, Anais on love
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"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."

Mother Teresa on love
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"Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little."

More, Hannah on love
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"Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works."

Mitchell, John N. on love
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"In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone."

John of the Cross, St. on love
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"Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved."

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"Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less."

Gordon, Rabbi J. on love
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"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De on love
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"Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence."

Gogh, Vincent Van on love
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