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- He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
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- Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.- Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!
(William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream")
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- She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.
(Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God")
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- He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with eager longing. Love was like a parasite in his heart, nourishing a hateful existence on his life's blood; it absorbed his existence so intensely that he could take pleasure in nothing else.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
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- Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
(William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream")
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- The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
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- O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!
(William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream")
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- Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
(Wally Lamb, "I Know This Much is True")
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- O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!
(William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream")
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- I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
(Wally Lamb, "She's Come Undone")
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- Love's not love when it is mingled with regards that stand aloof from the entire point.
(William Shakespeare, "King Lear")
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- We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.
(Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita")
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- If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
(Wally Lamb, "She's Come Undone")
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- I music be the food of love, play on
(William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night")
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- Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?
(Voltaire, "Candide")
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