Love Quotes

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"Love is a leap into the infinite."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"The only true love is the love of what is difficult."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Authentic love is the only answer to the question of how to live."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"True love is infinite; it cannot be diminished or divided."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"One must love without losing oneself; one must be independent without being isolated."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"The greatest love is the love that allows the beloved to become fully themselves."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"There is no true love except in imagination."
Denis Diderot
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"If I were wicked and designing, I should poison your coffee, but I love you."
Denis Diderot
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"We call that fire of the eyes only a poetic figure. But I maintain that it is literal truth."
Denis Diderot
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"The mind is always the dupe of the heart."
Denis Diderot
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"True love knows not the meaning of surrender."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"A man may forget the woman of his dreams; a woman will never forget the man of hers."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"To love is to act; to merely feel is to dream."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Love that is forced is no love at all."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"To love someone is to undertake to make them happy."
André Gide
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
André Gide
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"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination."
Voltaire
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"God gave us life; love is the gift we give each other."
Voltaire
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"To love is to acknowledge that you are not alone in the universe."
Albert Camus
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"To love is to demand that the other be free yet remain mine."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"The troubles that women cause us are the only things that make life bearable."
Montesquieu
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"In love, there is always some madness; in madness, there is always some reason."
Montesquieu
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"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved."
Denis Diderot
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"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
Denis Diderot
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"We are shaped by those who love us."
Denis Diderot
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"Authentic love should be based on understanding and acceptance, not on possession or control."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"Love requires the courage to be vulnerable without losing oneself."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"To love someone is to expand the circle of your own humanity."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"To love is to choose to believe in another person."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"To love someone is to accept them completely as they are."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau