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• From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Sadness, Blow, Giving

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

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• It's good for me to see so many other people who are not me. That there are so many others. I feel affection for them. Most of them are doing the best they can. I am also doing the best I can.

  Erlend Loe

  People, Feels, I Can

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.115, Canongate Books

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• Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that

  Princess Diana

  Believe, Needs, I Believe

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• As long as you're around, your life is too. So just as you shower love and affection and attention on the husbands, wives, parents, children and forever friends who sorround you, you have to do so equally with your life, because it's yours, it's you, and it's always there rooting for you, cheering you on, even when you feel like you can't do it. I gave up on my life for a while, but what I've learned is that even when that happens and especially when that happens, life never gives up on you.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Cheer, Children, Giving Up

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• Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for a move. It did very well in its place, but it looks shabby or tawdry or grotesque in the sunshine.

  C. S. Lewis

  Moving, Sunshine, Looks

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.

  Bette Davis

  Mistake, Doe, Bugs

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• There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on. But there's also something in it which makes it easier to stop at the natural level and mistake it for the heavenly. Brass is mistaken for gold more easily than clay is. And if it finally refuses conversion its corruption will be worse than the corruption of what ye call the lower passions. It is a stronger angel, and therefor, when it falls, a fiercer devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Mistake, Fall

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• Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been, icons and monuments of grace and love. It is the deep mystery how wounds and scars can become precious, or a ravaging and terrifying cross the essential symbol of relentless affection.” “Is it worth it?” whispered Tony. “Wrong question, son. There is no ‘it.’ The question is and has always been, ‘Are you worth it?’ and the answer is and always, ‘Yes!’

  William P. Young

  Hurt, Pain, Son

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• Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother

  Patricia Highsmith

  Mother, Humor, Elegance

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• Say Say Say What you want But don't play games With my affection Take take take What you need But don't leave me With no direction

  Michael Jackson

  Games, Play, Needs

  Song: Say Say Say

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• How did people get over this? They obviously did. Every day someone fell in love with the wrong person and had to pack up all their fragile, misguided hopes and unwanted affection, and move on to the next picnic table.

  Josh Lanyon

  Moving, People, Tables

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• Can you tell me where to find Tobias'? I ask. When I imagine his face, affection for him bubbles up inside of me and all I want to do is kiss him. 'Four, I mean. He's so handsome, isn't he? I don't really understand why he likes me so much. I'm not very nice, am I?' -Tris

  Veronica Roth

  Nice, Mean, Kissing

  Veronica Roth (2012). “Insurgent”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Old Friends, Tragedy, Hearty

  Sinclair Lewis (2002). “Arrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth”

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• It was good to be here with Hem and Cecily an Charlotte, to be surrounded by their affection, but without her there would always be something missing, a Tessa-shaped part chiseled out of his heart that he could never get back.

  Cassandra Clare

  Heart, Missing, Hem

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• A man might engage in flirtation with distinterest, even disdain. But he never teases without affection.

  Tessa Dare

  Men, Might, Tease

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• There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!

  Georgette Heyer

  Gratitude, Ill Treatment, Feelings

  Georgette Heyer (2011). “Lady Of Quality”, p.67, Random House

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• Men, she thought, were one of the world's few sure comforts, like a fire on a cold October night, like cocoa, like broken-in-slippers. Their clumsy affections, their bristly faces, and their willingness to do what needed to be done - cook an omelette, change lightbulbs, make with hugging - sometimes almost made being a woman fun.

  Joe Hill

  Fun, Night, Men

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• In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate the people who 'happen to be there.' Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teaching, People, Appreciate

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We offer love to our customers. And in return, we receive the finest smiles. And even if we cannot return their affection, at least we can offer a rose.

  Bisco Hatori

  Rose, Return, Finest

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• She praised his book and he embraced her from gratitude rather than lust, but she didn't let go. Neither did he. She kissed his cheek, his earlobe. For months they'd run their fingers around the hem of their affection without once acknowledging the fabric. The circumference of the world tightened to what their arms encompassed. She sat on the desk, between the columns of read and unread manuscript, and pulled him toward her by his index fingers.

  Anthony Marra

  Letting Go, Running, Gratitude

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• Despite the knowledge that her affections were unattainable, I couldn't help but be drawn to try.

  Kiera Cass

  Trying, Unattainable, Helping

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• It always struck Fire, the physical affection between these siblings, who as often as not were at each other's throats over one thing or another. She liked the way the four of them shifted and changed shape, bumping and clanging against one another, sharpening each other's edges and then smoothing them down again, and somehow always finding the way to fit together.

  Kristin Cashore

  Sibling, Fire, Together

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.

  Daniel Keyes

  People, Giving, Materials

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Real, Men, Feelings

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• I touch her cheek to slow the kiss down, holding her mouth on mine so I can feel every place where our lips touch and every place where they pull away. I savor the air we share in the second afterwards and the slip of her nose across mine. I think of something to say, but it is too intimate, so I swallow it. A moment later I decide I don't care. "I wish we were alone," I say as I back out of the cell. She smiles. "I almost always wish that.

  Veronica Roth

  Kissing, Thinking, Air

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Allegiant (Divergent Trilogy, Book 3)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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