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• Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fashion, Men, Wife

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• All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.

  George Orwell

  Strong, Years, Tea

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are some European words you can never translate properly into another language.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Long, Forgiving, Desire

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• He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct funhouses for others and be their secret operator -- though he would rather be among the lovers for whom funhouses are designed.

  John Barth

  Secret, Wish, Constructs

  L. Rust Hills, John Barth (1974). “Writer's choice”, Modern Library

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• As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Relationship, Women

  W. Somerset Maugham (2006). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.

  Charlaine Harris

  Romance, Eric Northman, Respectful

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.734, Penguin

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• They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Doe, Firsts, Affection

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.134, Courier Corporation

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• Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

  Graham Greene

  Insecurity, Twists, Poison

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• Her thoughts ran away to her girlhood with its passionate longing for adventure and she remembered the arms of men that had held her when adventure was a possible thing for her. Particularly she remembered one who had for a time been her lover and who in the moment of his passion had cried out to her more than a hundred times, saying the same words madly over and over: "You dear! You dear! You lovely dear!" The words, she thought, expressed something she would have liked to have achieved in life.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Passion, Adventure, Men

  Sherwood Anderson (2015). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.181, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.

  Charles Bukowski

  Hurt, Kids, Night

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• I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Europe, Gone, Use

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.62, Hamilton Books

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• stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drinking, Beer, Blood

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• And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved; for the god was in the one but not in the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows.

  Thomas Mann

  Secret, Arches, Beloved

  Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.45, Vintage

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• Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.

  Tom Robbins

  Moon, Keys, Blood

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.58, Bantam

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• Haven't you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen but boiling inside. The emotion never seems to tire, this hatred mixed with intense obsession, even with a kind of twisted love.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Love, Letting Go, Distance

  Scott Westerfeld (2006). “Peeps”, p.23, Penguin

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• She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave

  Neal Stephenson

  Crazy, My Lover

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• Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have come together, like bashful lovers, and the music of one would have begun to intersect with the music of the other. But it was too late now.

  Milan Kundera

  Vocabulary, Together, Too Late

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• What is the world coming to, when you can't even trust a rogue vicar and her demon lover?

  Simon R. Green

  World, Rogues, Demon

  Simon R. Green (2009). “Just Another Judgement Day”, p.112, Penguin

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• Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

  Robert Jordan

  Enemy, Three, Too Late

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.734, Macmillan

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• ...Speaking of, I've been playing with the letters - Lovers In a Very Enlightened Regard." "LIVER. Good one." "Also, how about Life Invasion Via Exceptional Respect?" "Life Invasion. Like it." "Or Lovelike Intensity Via Emotional Rapport." "Doesn't that spell OLIVER?

  Shannon Hale

  Emotional, Letters, Invasion

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Actor and the Housewife: A Novel”, p.143, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a heart and who is not wretchedly and hopelessly blasé feels his love increased by his happiness, and very often the best way to retain a lover ready to leave is to give one's self up to him without reserve.

  Theophile Gautier

  Passion, Heart, Men

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• For Lily, there was only her phantom lover, bold enough, arrogant enough, crazy enough to dare follow her here when he was in far more danger than she could ever be.

  Christine Feehan

  Crazy, Phantoms, Arrogant

  Christine Feehan (2003). “Shadow Game”, p.286, Penguin

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• We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male and female but both, two lovers in one body. The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leather covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes. You had caught my leaping heart in your hand like a fish.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Book, Heart, Wine

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• I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best friends must necessarily be the ones who best understand you. As if there weren't far too much understanding in the world already; above all, that understanding between lovers, celebrated in song and story, which is actually such torture that no two of them can bear it without frequent separations or fights.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Song, Fighting, Thinking

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• It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them almost close their love-drowned eyes.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Horse, Moving, Eye

  "Scenes from a provincial life" by AS Byatt, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2002.

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