Amour Quotes

• Il n'est rien de réel que le rêve et l'amour.
  (Nothing is real but dreams and love.)

  Anna de Noailles

  Dream, Real, French Love

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• Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

  Germaine Greer

  Jealousy, Men, Jealous Man

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!

  Aphra Behn

  Love, Crush, Dear

  1687 The Emperor of the Moon, act1, sc.1.

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• L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Love Is, Feelings

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• La volupte   unique et supre"  me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Unique, Evil, Pleasure

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• Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.

  Jean Anouilh

  Greatest Love, Ruins, Plus

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• La possession de ce qu'on aime est une joie plus grande encore que l'amour. Possessing what one loves is an even greater joy than love itself.

  Marcel Proust

  Love Is, Joy, One Love

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• In the Middle Ages, the troubadour poets invented the concept of courtly love--a fantasy love, a noble passion, which was also extra-marital and thus inevitably thwarted, illicit, adulterous. One of the medieval terms for it was amour honestus (honest love). I've always wondered why this passionate ideal--masochistic, spiritual-travelled with such wildfire throughout Europe. My poem, a ghazal, takes up the subject.

  Edward Hirsch

  Spiritual, Passion, Europe

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• Le bonheur est dans l'amour un e  tat anormal. In love, happiness is abnormal.

  Marcel Proust

  Abnormal, L Amour

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• The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone.
  [Fr., Le commencement et le declin de l'amour se font sentir par l'embarras ou l'on est de se trouver seuls.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Two, Fonts

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• O tyrant love, when held by you,
  We may to prudence bid adieu.
  [Fr., Amour! Amour! quand tu nous tiens
  On peut bien dire, Adieu, prudence.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Love, Tyrants, May

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• Quelque rigueur qui loge en votre coeur, Amour s'en peut un jour rendre vainqueur. That little harshness which resides in your heart, Love will vanquish someday.

  Louise Labe

  Heart, Littles, Someday

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• Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love Is, Men, Delight

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• That's l'amour: we willingly walk into the future blindfolded.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Walks, L Amour, Blindfolded

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Our amour fou with 'The Sopranos' is headed for long-term parking, like so many of its most memorable characters. We'll never see a show like this again.

  Rob Sheffield

  Memorable, Character, Long

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• Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I had never been, heard vague incantations, felt the heat of raging fires on my face. And they didn't come out of him, these visions. Rather I drew them out on my own. Yet I never had Nicolas, mortal or immortal, been so alluring. Never had Gabrielle held me so in thrall. Dear God, this is love. This is desire. And all my past amours have been but the shadow of this." — Lestat de Lioncourt

  Anne Rice

  Past, Fire, Vision

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.757, Ballantine Books

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• ...Je n’ai pas cessé de l’être si c’est d’être jeune que d’aimer toujours !... L’humanité n’est pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite d’amour, et ne plus aimer c’est ne plus vivre." (I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.)

  George Sand

  Humanity, Life Is, Vain

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• Une histoire d'amour dont les épisodes ont été mélangés par un fou

  Amelie Nothomb

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• Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death.

  Lana Del Rey

  Syrup, Velvet, Hitting

  Song: Velvet Crowbar

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• Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

  Marie Corelli

  Mean, Mad, World

  "Wormwood: A Drama of Paris".

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• She thumped him again. He looked startled, then caught her flying fist in his hand and gently pried her fingers open. Very carefully he pressed a kiss into the exact center of her palm. 'Savannah? Were you trying to hit me?' 'I didn't hit you--twice, you scum. You didn't even notice the first time.' She sounded very irritated with him. For some reason it made him want to smile. 'I apologize, mon amour. Next time, I promise I will notice when you strike me.' The hard edge to his mouth softened into a semblance of a smile. 'I will even go so far as to pretend that it hurts, if you wish it.

  Christine Feehan

  Hurt, Kissing, Hands

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• If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is to say, to live in a form of bondage), then the acceptance and affirmation of death is indeed a form of self-love. But I'd want to make a distinction between a form of self-love which is essential to what it means to be human, and a narcissism of self-regard, like Rousseau's distinction between amour de soi and amour propre, self-love and pride.

  Simon Critchley

  Mean, Pride, Acceptance

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• The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than about even their amours.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sex, Believe, People

  aldous huxley (1928). “point counter point”

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• If you liked Louis L'Amour, you will really love Don Bendell.

  Asa Baber

  L Amour, Ifs

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• In America the chief accusation seems to be one of "Eroticism." This is odd, rather puzzling to my mind. Which Eros? Eros of the jaunty "amours," or Eros of the sacred mysteries? And if the latter, why accuse, why not respect, even venerate?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Sex, America

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9267, Delphi Classics

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