Love Quotes

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

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"Love, like art, requires both discipline and spontaneity."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"True love is when you can still feel pain after the tears have dried."
Stendhal
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"I despise myself for loving you."
Stendhal
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"There is beggary in the love that can be reckoned."
Stendhal
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"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones."
Stendhal
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"To describe one's love is to diminish it."
Stendhal
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"To love is to have the constant wish to give happiness."
Stendhal
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"When a man is in love he is incapable of any crimes."
Stendhal
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"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"In matters of the heart, the mind is a poor guide."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Love is the most beautiful of all emotions, and the most painful."
Théophile Gautier
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"In love, as in war, all is fair."
Théophile Gautier
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"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
Théophile Gautier
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"Life without love is like a year without summer."
Théophile Gautier
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"To love is to risk everything for nothing."
Théophile Gautier
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"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
George Sand
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"The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death."
George Sand
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"To love is to surrender oneself to the infinite."
Gérard de Nerval
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"Love is the only currency that gains value through spending."
Gérard de Nerval
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"We love not the person, but the dream we project upon them."
Gérard de Nerval
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"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
Guy de Maupassant
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"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving."
Guy de Maupassant
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"Love is a great awakening from the sleep of reason."
Guy de Maupassant
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"The heart knows truths the mind cannot grasp."
Guy de Maupassant
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"True love requires sacrifice without expectation of return."
Guy de Maupassant
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"The soft frame of woman was made to honour and obey, but not to be enslaved by love."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"Love is the only thing that makes us feel truly alive."
Gérard de Nerval
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"To love is to accept the possibility of profound loss."
Gérard de Nerval
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"Love demands sacrifice, yet yields no guarantee of return."
Victor Leconte de Lisle