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She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned
romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural
beginning.
Author: Jane Austen (signed first book "By a Lady")
Source: Persuasion
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Romances paint at full length people's wooings,
But only give a bust of marriages:
For no one cares for matrimonial cooings.
There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.
Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife,
He would have written sonnets all his life?
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto III, st. 8)
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Parent of golden dreams, Romance!
Auspicious queen of childish joys,
Who lead'st along, in airy dance,
Thy votive train of girls and boys.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: To Romance
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He loved the twilight that surrounds
The border-land of old romance;
Where glitter hauberk, helm, and lance,
And banner waves, and trumpet sounds,
And ladies ride with hawk on wrist,
And mighty warriors sweep along,
Magnified by the purple mist,
The dusk of centuries and of song.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Prelude to Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. V, l. 130)
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Romance is the poetry of literature.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Prelude to Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. V, l. 130)
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Lady of the Mere,
Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: A Narrow Girdle of Rough Stones and Crags
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As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
Source: None
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Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: None
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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
Author: T.S. Eliot
Source: None
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Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire.
Author: Duc de la Rouchefoucauld
Source: None
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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Author: Federico Fellini
Source: None
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How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved!
Author: Sigmund Freud
Source: None
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Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
Author: Percy Shelley
Source: None
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Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore… only the life I have lived… The pain now is part of the happiness (then).
Author: Anthony Hopkins
Source: None
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You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: None
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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Author: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz
Source: None
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Source: None
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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Author: Thornton Wilder
Source: None
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You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
Author: Henry Adams
Source: None
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If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile . . . her look . . . her way Of speaking gently . . . for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day- For these things in themselves, Beloved, may be changed, or change for thee- and love so wrought, May be unwrought so.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: None
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. •Jean Pierre Claris De Florian Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
Author: Jean Pierre Claris De Florian
Source: None
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Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
Author: Euripides
Source: None
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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.
Author: Goncourt
Source: None
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
Source: None
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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.
Author: Erica Jong
Source: None
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True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
Author: François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Source: None
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To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
Author: Charles A. Lindbergh
Source: None
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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Author: Voltaire
Source: None
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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
Author: Andy Warhol
Source: None
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I have you. A lover and a friend. You are everything I need. You are the sun, the air I breathe. Without you, life wouldn't be the same. Please don't ever go away. And if you go, then don't forget to take me with you.
Author: Basia
Source: None
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Sometimes, it is good to be "alone".... but that doesn't make us lonely. It is not a matter of being present "with" someone, it is a matter of being present " to" someone.
Author: Source Unknown
Source: None
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To love is like playing the piano. First, you must learn to play by the rules. Then, you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
Author: Source Unknown
Source: None
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
Author: William Cowper
Source: None
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So, fall asleep love, loved by me....for I know love, I am loved by thee.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: None
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Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Author: Unknown
Source: None
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Love is somthing that can not be explained - the force that drives us to protect the ones we care about.
Author: Adam
Source: None
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Author: Jean Pierre Claris De Florian
Source: None
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Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
Author: Louise Erdrich
Source: None
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This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Author: Thomas Mann
Source: None
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I think we dream so we don't have to be away from one another. If we're in each other's dreams, we'll always be together.
Author: Hobbes
Source: None
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