LOVE QUOTES XXIV

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First we love within, then we love the world.

ELIZABETH LESSER
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The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure


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The loves of men but vary in degrees--
They find no new expression for the flame.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Isaura"


No love without bread and wine.

FRENCH PROVERB


No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah


We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own yearnings.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


When love grows diseas'd, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a ling'ring and consumptive passion.

GEORGE ETHEREGE

The Man of Mode

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It isn't being happy together ... that makes one love--it's being unhappy together.

GRAHAM GREENE

The Ministry of Fear


Love ... must come suddenly, with great thunderclaps and bolts of lightning -- a hurricane from heaven that drops down on your life, overturns it, tears away your will like a leaf, and carries your whole heart off with it into the abyss.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Madame Bovary

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To speak of love is to make love.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

JAMES BALDWIN

The Fire Next Time

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Love was a country he knew nothing about.

JAMES BALDWIN

Another Country

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Love is love's reward.

JOHN DRYDEN

Palamon and Arcite

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Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.

JOHN LE CARRÉ

The Looking Glass War

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The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

journal, Apr. 4, 1831

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Love and money should properly have nothing to do with each other.

JOHN SAUL

Guardian

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A summer romance is something special, because it blazes like a comet across the sky and then fades out. The thing that makes it special--that makes everything move so fast--is that a summer romance is doomed to end.

JOHN VORNHOLT

Coyote Moon

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Love is the power that can anchor and transform both our conflicts and our compromises, as we take firm and steady steps toward big and worthy goals. Although we've banished talk of love from our public discourse, we need to place it back where it belongs -- front and center, right alongside high standards and expectations.

KEN WAGNER

"Back to School -- New Statewide Offerings Include Love", Westerly Sun, August 31, 2016


If somebody says "I love you" to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? "I love you, too."

KURT VONNEGUT

Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons


Love covers a multitude of sins.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Little Women

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Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations; but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine

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