Love Quotes
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Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.
Albert Camus
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Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.
Dante Alighieri
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There's nothing I need from anyone except love and respect, and anyone who can't give me those two things has no place in my life.
Harvey Fierstein
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Fear is a lonely thing. Even those who love us best cannot get close to us when we are afraid.
Elizabeth Goudge
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According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.
Marcel Proust
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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
Alexandre Dumas
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
Moliere
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Teach love, for that is what you are.
George Eliot
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They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for his integrity and judgment and iron will; but they love him most for the enemies he has made.
Edward S. Bragg
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Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it.
Brennan Manning
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I do love being onstage. And I've always loved playing a character and being watched doing that.
Cecile McLorin Salvant
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You were not my first love, Stoick the Vast," said Valhallarama. "But you are my last…
Cressida Cowell
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To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings or pervades you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless, living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Sex isn't all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
Ava Gardner
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I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.
Tina Turner
Ike & Tina Turner
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To describe love – making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to you and me as lookers – on, would be to describe the most dreary farce, to chronicle the most tautological twaddle. To take note of sighs, hand – squeezes, looks at the moon, and so forth – does this business become our dignity as historians? Come away from those foolish young people – they don't want us; and dreary as their farce is, and tautological as their twaddle, you may be sure it amuses them, and that they are happy enough without us.
William Makepeace Thackeray
