Love Quotes

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

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"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones."
Jean Racine
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"Love transcends reason and defies explanation."
Jean Racine
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"Love is the tyrant of the heart."
Molière
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"To love is to risk everything; to play it safe is to risk nothing but happiness."
Molière
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"If we listened to our intellects, we'd never fall in love."
Molière
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"The heart has reasons that reason knows nothing of."
Molière
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"To love is to be vulnerable; to refuse love is to refuse life itself."
Molière
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"To love without knowing why is the truest form of devotion."
Pierre Corneille
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"Love must be reinvented, or it will simply cease to exist."
Arthur Rimbaud
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"In love, there is always some madness. But in madness, there is also always some reason."
Paul Verlaine
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"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
Paul Verlaine
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"Love is the only force that transcends time and death."
Paul Verlaine
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"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
Voltaire
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"Love is a passion that transcends reason and speaks directly to the soul"
Pierre Corneille
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"We love without reason, and without reason we cease to love."
Jean Racine
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"Love's cruelty exceeds its sweetness tenfold."
Jean Racine
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"To love is to surrender; to surrender is to lose oneself."
Jean Racine
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"In every love story lies a tragedy waiting to unfold."
Jean Racine
"We love what we do not possess, and despise what lies too easily within our grasp."
Charles Baudelaire
"The unique and supreme pleasure of love lies in the certainty of doing evil."
Charles Baudelaire
"True love must include the element of passionate desire and the willingness to sacrifice."
Charles Baudelaire
"To love is to wish to give oneself, to offer oneself completely."
Charles Baudelaire
"The perfect love is that which gives without expectation of return."
Charles Baudelaire
"The lover must be willing to sacrifice everything for a moment of truth."
Charles Baudelaire
"The soul that truly loves is forever changed by the experience."
Charles Baudelaire
"The greatest love story is the one written in the heart without words."
Charles Baudelaire
"To understand love, one must first understand one's capacity for self-destruction."
Charles Baudelaire
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"To love is to risk the destruction of one's carefully constructed self."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Love is the most beautiful of all lies."
Paul Verlaine
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"To love deeply is to risk losing everything, and it is worth the risk."
Paul Verlaine