Love Quotes

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

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"We know them not only by reason but by love."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"Love is the only force strong enough to overcome hatred."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"Love is the most dangerous of all gifts, for it demands everything and gives nothing in return except itself."
Anna Akhmatova
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"Love demands the whole of us, and gives us nothing but itself in return."
Anna Akhmatova
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"I have learned that some loves are meant only to teach us, not to stay."
Anna Akhmatova
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"I have loved deeply and lost more deeply still, and I would not change it."
Anna Akhmatova
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"In love, we are both masters and servants, victors and vanquished."
Anna Akhmatova
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"I have loved enough to understand that love is its own punishment and reward."
Anna Akhmatova
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"One cannot love sincerely without respecting the beloved object."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Love is the most complex of all human emotions."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Marriage is the grave of love."
August Strindberg
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"One cannot love a second time what one has ceased to love."
August Strindberg
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"In the relationship between man and woman, the cruelest deception is passion."
August Strindberg
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"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."
Selma Lagerlöf
"The greatest love affair is with oneself, and from that flows all other love."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"To love is to see oneself through another's eyes and approve of what you see."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"The deepest love is that which asks nothing but to give."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"To love another person is to see the face of God."
Henrik Ibsen
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"The need for love is universal to all humanity."
Henrik Ibsen
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"The heart has reasons that reason knows nothing of."
Henrik Ibsen
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"To love another person is to see the face of God."
Boris Pasternak
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"One thing must be loved to understand the rest of them."
Boris Pasternak
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"In love, one must believe in the possibility of complete transformation and renewal."
Boris Pasternak
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"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."
Boris Pasternak
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"Grief is simply love with no place to go."
Boris Pasternak
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"Love without sacrifice is merely sentiment; sacrifice without love is merely pain."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"To love is to become vulnerable, and vulnerability is the birthplace of human dignity."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"I have come to understand that a woman can love only once with all her heart."
Anna Akhmatova
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"My beloved threw a stone at me wrapped in a sonnet."
Anna Akhmatova
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"To love is to be transformed by fire and shadow."
Anna Akhmatova