"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Allen, Woody on love
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"The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible."

Algren, Nelson on love
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"We must love one another or die."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one."

Balzac, Honore De on love
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"Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones."

Bandler, Richard on love
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"Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex."

Barnes, Julian on love
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"The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much."

Barr, Amelia E. on love
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"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive."

Battista, Orlando A. on love
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"To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light."

Baudrillard, Jean on love
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"If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity."

Baudrillard, Jean on love
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"When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being."

Becker, Ernest on love
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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."

Beecher, Henry Ward on love
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"Love is the river of life in the world."

Beecher, Henry Ward on love
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"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."

Beecher, Henry Ward on love
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"What the world really needs is more love and less paper work."

Bailey, Pearl on love
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"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love."

Bailey, Pearl on love
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"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."

Augustine, St. on love
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"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."

Augustine, St. on love
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"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Love is the beauty of the soul."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Love, and do what you like."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

Aurelius, Marcus on love
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"Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it."

Bacon, Francis on love
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"For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."

Bacon, Francis on love
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"Real love stories never have endings."

Bach, Richard on love
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"Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do."

Auvil, Myrtle on love
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"Hope is the dream of a waking man."

Aristotle on hope
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"There is hope for all of us. Well, anyway, if you don't die you live through it, day in, day out."

Becker, May L. on hope
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hope
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"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope."

Ciardi, John on hope
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"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

Cohen, Leonard on hope
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"The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away."

Cowper, William on hope
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"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle on hope
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"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words -- and never stops at all."

Dickinson, Emily on hope
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"Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired."

Erikson, Erik H. on hope
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"Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad."

Dickens, Charles on hope
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