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  Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Love, Life, Relationship

  The Lathe of Heaven ch. 10 (1971)

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• It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Life, Confused

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2083, Delphi Classics

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• There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Life, Crush

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.30, Algora Publishing

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• Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Relationship

  1595 Helena. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act1, sc.1, l.234-5.

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  Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

  Joan Crawford

  Love, Heartbreak, Dream

  Interview in "Hollywood Reporter", 1954.

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• We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Marriage, Time

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

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  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Funny, Life

  In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Marriage, Sweet Love, Educational

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

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• Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

  Jasper Fforde

  Love, Romantic, Anniversary

  Jasper Fforde (2007). “Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.36, Penguin

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• And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Voice, Heaven

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 4, sc. 3, l. [327]

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• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

  Peter Ustinov

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Beauty, Hands

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 23

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• The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love, Women, Constancy

  The Philanderer act 2 (1893)

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• Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Family

  1601 Olivia.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.1, l.154.

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• The course of true love never did run smooth.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Summer

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132

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• We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Benjamin Disraeli (1974). “Sybil”, p.308, Prabhat Prakashan

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• When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Life, Marriage

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.24, Lulu.com

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• So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.

  John Milton

  Love, Life, Boyfriend

  Robert Anderson, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset (1795). “The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces”, p.76

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• Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Bending, Bears

  Sonnet 116

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• Love understands love; it needs no talk.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Love, Life, Cute

  Frances Ridley Havergal (1877). “Royal commandments; or, Morning thoughts for the King's servants”

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• Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

  George Crabbe

  Love, Life

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.98

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• To see her is to love her,
  And love but her forever;
  For nature made her what she is,
  And never made anither!

  Robert Burns

  Love, Life, Nature

  'Bonnie Lesley' (1798)

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• I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.

  Robert Menzies

  Love, Passing By, Passings

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• There is always some madness in love.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Crush, Sexy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.99, Penguin

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