"'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it."

Cervantes, Miguel De 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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"Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough."

Beaumarchais, Pierre De 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 try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished."

Barthes, Roland on love
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"If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile."

Barry, Lynda on love
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"If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."

Barrie, Sir James M. 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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"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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"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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"Love, and do what you 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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"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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"A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

Bible on love
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"A temporary insanity curable by marriage."

Bierce, Ambrose on love
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"Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other."

Cervantes, Miguel De on love
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"It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion."

Catullus on love
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"Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith."

Carlyle, Thomas on love
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"Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life."

Capote, Truman on love
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"In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision."

Calvino, Italo on love
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"Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still."

Buscaglia, Leo on love
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"No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread."

Burton, Robert on love
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"Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on love
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"When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them."

Buber, Martin on love
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"We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully."

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"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on love
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"Who so loves believes the impossible."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on love
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"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on love
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"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists."

Brookner, Anita on love
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"When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out."

Bowen, Elizabeth on love
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"Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."

Blake, William on love
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"Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do."

Billings, Josh on love
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"We must love one another or die."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on love
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"All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate."

Brittain, Vera on peace
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