Love Quotes

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

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"Love is but an exchange of fantasies and the rubbing of bodies"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She had confused romance with happiness, and paid the price"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The heart knows no arithmetic, only excess"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The heart is a fickle instrument, poorly tuned from the start"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Love is the name we give to our desperation for meaning"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Love is just another word."
Jordan Baker
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"He loved her, and he wanted to give her everything."
Nick Carraway
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"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved for what we are."
Fantine
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"Love can transform even the hardest heart."
Haydée
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"I could never understand how one can love one's neighbors. It's one's enemies I find absolutely impossible to love."
Ivan Karamazov
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"Desire had made her eloquent"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great thunder and lightning"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She mistook agitation for passion"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She had confused the flattery of lovers with the love of a husband"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Love for her was a theater in which she played the tragic heroine"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She sought in passion what she could not find in marriage"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Her passion was a flame that consumed everything it touched"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She had loved the idea of love more than love itself"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Love cannot exist without sacrifice."
Sonya
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"Love demands everything, but gives nothing in return but itself."
Sonya
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"To love is to pray."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"We cannot command our love or unlove."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"All sorrows are bearable if there is love."
Natasha Rostova
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"Love demands sacrifice."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"The highest kind of love manifests itself in sacrifice"
Sonya
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"To love another person is to see the face of God."
Fantine
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"To love is to act."
Jean Valjean
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"Hell is not to love anymore."
Fantine
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"In the presence of true love, all else becomes insignificant."
Marius Pontmercy
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"She loved him less and less."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)