Love Quotes

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"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."
Foucault, Michel
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"To marry someone is to accept them as they are, but to love them is to desire what they could become."
Foucault, Michel
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"Love is giving something you do not have to someone who does not want it."
Lacan, Jacques
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"Love and hate are not opposites in the unconscious."
Lacan, Jacques
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"Love is the meeting of two solitudes."
Lacan, Jacques
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"Love is not the fusion of two beings but the multiplication of difference."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"We love what exceeds our categories and understanding."
Derrida, Jacques
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"Mourning teaches us what we love only when it is threatened."
Derrida, Jacques
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"To love is to love what resists possession and understanding."
Derrida, Jacques
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"Love is the desire to integrate another into one's own being."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"Understanding is a form of love."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"Love is giving something you don't have."
Lacan, Jacques
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"Love and hate are two sides of the same coin."
Lacan, Jacques
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"Love is the assumption of the totality of the beloved."
Lacan, Jacques
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"Love is a state of being more than a mere act or action"
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"When one loves, one enters the world of another"
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."
Camus, Albert
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"There is no love without jealousy."
Camus, Albert
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"Love is not about merging two beings but creating a third space between them."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"To love is to open oneself to absolute vulnerability and risk."
Derrida, Jacques
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"Love is the experience of the other's singularity and irreplaceability."
Derrida, Jacques
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"Love is the attempt to form a we."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"In friendship and love, understanding is tested and deepened through time and shared experience."
Gadamer, Hans-Georg
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"To deny ourselves an object of love is to deny the very ground of our being."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"The essence of love is sacrifice."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"To understand love is to understand the desire for freedom in union."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"To love is to risk being known, truly known."
Foucault, Michel
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"Love is a space where power relations might be suspended."
Foucault, Michel
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"To love is to admit that the other is a multiplicityI will never fully know."
Deleuze, Gilles