"Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?"

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle · Infatuation · 0 fans >>
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"Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me."

Donne, John · Infatuation · 4 fans >>
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"Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us."

Eliot, George · Infatuation · 0 fans >>
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"I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being."

Gibbon, Edward · Infatuation · 1 fans >>
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"There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years."

Hoagland, Edward · Infatuation · 1 fans >>
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"I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent · Infatuation · 3 fans >>
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"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 · Infatuation · 11 fans >>
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"I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage."

Shakespeare, William · Infatuation · 0 fans >>
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"Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion! and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting -- more lovely in sullenness! Then, Jack, her neck! O, Jack, Jack!"

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley · Infatuation · 0 fans >>
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"It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all."

Thackeray, William M. · Infatuation · 17 fans >>
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