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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage
Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning , all fear of an end
To live without loving is not really to live
Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before
We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves
They do not love that do not show their love
The course of true love never did run smooth
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