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.

Cesare Pavese Quotes

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Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes

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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.

George Eliot Quotes

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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.

William M. Thackeray Quotes

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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...tenderness, infatuation, adulation, idolatry - that isn't much to ask, is it Charles? Is it Charles?

Jean Giraudoux Quotes

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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.

Edward Gibbon Quotes

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The essence of love begins when infatuation ends.

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