Love Quotes

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

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"Love, as it exists in society, is merely the exchange of two fantasies."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Absence diminishes small passions and increases great ones."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Love is a great beautifier."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Love is like the lion's tooth."
William Butler Yeats
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"Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, I would spread them under your feet."
William Butler Yeats
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"How strange it seems that all the treasures of my mind are you."
William Butler Yeats
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"Love is nearer by contraries."
William Butler Yeats
"What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them give you the universe?"
Samuel Beckett
"Love is the bridge between two souls."
Samuel Beckett
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"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
Oscar Wilde
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"A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her."
Oscar Wilde
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"It is better to desire and not to possess, than to possess and not to desire."
Oscar Wilde
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"Where there is no exaggeration, there is no love."
Oscar Wilde
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"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
Oscar Wilde
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"Common sense is the enemy of romance."
Oscar Wilde
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"Everyone is worthy of love except him who thinks that he is worthy of it."
Oscar Wilde
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"To love someone means to see them as God intended them to be."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Not to love is not to live, even when life continues."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"To love is to suffer."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"That which is called love in life only begins where what is called virtue in social convention ends."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"The gift of true love lies in forgiving the unforgivable."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"The question of existence is answered through love."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"How much suffering and shame you have to go through before you reach the promised land of love."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Love is life. All that I understand, I understand because of love."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The greatest revolution in our civilization is the power of love over hatred."
Leo Tolstoy
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"He fell in love with the idea of love itself, not the person before him."
James Joyce
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"Love is the greatest thing we have in our lives, even though it is frequently difficult to find."
James Joyce
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"Love without understanding is just sentiment."
James Joyce
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"To love is to accept the imperfections of another."
James Joyce
"Love is a pact signed by idiots."
Samuel Beckett