Love Quotes

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

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"To be loved is the highest blessing."
Frances Burney
"Love is the most powerful force in the universe."
Daniel Defoe
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"It is the nature of a man to love himself."
Laurence Sterne
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"The heart wants what it wants."
Laurence Sterne
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"The greatest pleasure of life is love."
Laurence Sterne
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"We accept the love we think we deserve."
Laurence Sterne
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"Love without understanding is merely passion pretending."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Love demands vulnerability, the greatest courage of all."
Ann Radcliffe
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"True love is like a ghost; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it."
Stendhal
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"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love."
Stendhal
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"The state of grace we enjoy in love is the rarest thing on earth."
Stendhal
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"The best proof of love is trust."
Stendhal
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"In true love there is no comedy."
Stendhal
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"To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic."
Stendhal
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"To be in love is to be forever changed."
Stendhal
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"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
George Sand
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"We accept the love we think we deserve."
George Sand
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"To be loved for what one is, is the greatest blessing."
Frances Burney
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"The greatest love is self-sacrificial love."
Frances Burney
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"The melody of the heart is love."
Frances Burney
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"When a man is in love he is incapable of perceiving anything wrong in the object of his passion."
Henry Fielding
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"In love, the heart argues as well as the mind."
Henry Fielding
"The heart knows what the mind cannot understand."
Daniel Defoe
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"The greatest pleasure in life is that of being loved."
Laurence Sterne
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"In love and war, all strategies are fair when sincerely motivated."
Laurence Sterne
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"In matters of the heart, logic is a poor compass."
Laurence Sterne
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"The heart speaks languages that words cannot capture."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Love is the art of forgetting oneself in service to another."
Ann Radcliffe
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"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
Stendhal
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"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."
Stendhal