Love Quotes

The force that moves poets, philosophers, and ordinary people to extraordinary acts.

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"I am convinced that the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference."
Wangari Maathai
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"I have always believed that the struggle for justice is a struggle for love."
Wangari Maathai
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"In every act of conservation, there is an act of love."
Wangari Maathai
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"We cannot conserve what we do not love, and we cannot love what we do not understand."
Aldo Leopold
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"Conservation is an act of love for the future."
Aldo Leopold
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"Love is the refusal to reduce another to categories."
Giorgio Agamben
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"Love is thinking with the other."
Jacques Derrida
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"Love is not a feeling but a practice."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Love creates new possibilities for existence."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Love is not about finding the perfect person; it is about seeing an imperfect person perfectly."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Love dies when we stop being surprised by the other person."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Love is the practice of seeing another as oneself."
Giorgio Agamben
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"Love is the ultimate example of pure difference"
Gilles Deleuze
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"The lover does not seek to possess but to proliferate difference"
Gilles Deleuze
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"Love requires a kind of productive impossibility at its core."
Slavoj Žižek
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"The ultimate love is the love of one's own imprisonment."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Love requires the impossible: to recognize the other in their absolute otherness."
Jacques Derrida
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"Love and responsibility are inseparable in any ethical engagement."
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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"Reading closely is a form of love, a way of attending to difference."
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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"To read carefully is to enter into relationship with the other."
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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"Intellectual work is a form of love directed toward the other."
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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"Love is the only lie we should never stop believing in."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Love is an experimental practice, not a feeling."
Félix Guattari
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"We must invent new forms of love."
Félix Guattari
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"Love is the practice of becoming-other."
Félix Guattari
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"Love is the only antidote to domination."
Max Horkheimer
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"Love requires the freedom to choose."
Max Horkheimer
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"Love must be rational to be authentic."
Max Horkheimer
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"Love requires that we accept the incompleteness of the beloved."
Giorgio Agamben
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"Love cannot be reduced to calculation or logic."
Jacques Derrida