Love Quotes

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

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"To love is to risk everything and fear nothing."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Love is space and time measured by the heart."
Marcel Proust
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"In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love."
Marcel Proust
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"I have lost my heart. How strange to lose what I never had."
Marcel Proust
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"To love is to choose."
Marcel Proust
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"When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe."
Marcel Proust
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"To love is to understand."
Marcel Proust
"Love as if you were afraid of losing it."
André Gide
"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."
André Gide
"Love cannot long subsist in the atmosphere of necessity."
André Gide
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"Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Do not seek so anxiously to awaken love where it will come only through sorrow."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved."
Romain Rolland
"Love is the most powerful of all the passions."
Romain Rolland
"The greatest love is the love that costs us nothing but gives everything."
Romain Rolland
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"We must love one another or die."
François Mauriac
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"The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of."
François Mauriac
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"We cannot truly love what we do not understand."
François Mauriac
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"In love, as in war, fortitude is everything."
François Mauriac
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"We love most those who need us, not those who need us most."
François Mauriac
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"To love is to be vulnerable."
François Mauriac
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"Love is the only thing that can make the blind see and the deaf hear."
Anatole France
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"The heart wants what it wants, and usually it is something foolish."
Anatole France
"We accept the love we think we deserve, though rarely do we deserve any at all."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"The greatest love stories are those that never happened."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Love is the most exquisite form of self-deception."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"The mind of a woman, especially when she is in love, is not bound by the same rules as other minds."
Henry James
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"To love is to accept loss; the greater the love, the greater the potential wound."
Henry James
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"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
Henry James
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"The time of year most conducive to love is spring."
Marcel Proust