"The greatest happiness of life it is the conviction that we are loved
- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
Victor Hugo |
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"We love being in love, that's the truth on't."
W.Thackery
1811-1863 |
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"Love looks
not with the eyes, but with
the mind,
And therefore
is winged
Cupid
painted
blind."
Shakespeare |
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"Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world;
a prescription often given, too rarely taken."
Karl Menninger |
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"O lift me from the grass!
I die, I faint, I fail!
Let thy love in kisses rain
On my lips and eyelids pale.
My cheek is cold and white, alas!
My heart beats loud and fast;
O! Press it close to thine again
Where it will break at last."
From Lines to an Indian air
by Shelley |
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"Cupid and Campaspe play'd
At cards for kisses;Cupid paid:"
J.Lyle |
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"Their lips were four red roses on a stalk,
Which in their summer beauty kissed each other."
Shakespeare |
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"There is only one happiness in life - to love and be loved."
George Sand
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"The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all
things the wrong way."
Plato
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"Love is the triumph of
imagination over intelligence"
H.L.Mencken |
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"Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and
love."
Benjamin Disraeli |
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"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."
Plato |
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"A successful marriage
requires
falling in
love many
times, always
with the same person"
Mignon
McLaughlin |
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"No one in love is free, or wants to be."
Anon. |