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*In love you have to look
at the individual, not their actions.
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-Alyssa Jones, the character played by
Joey Lauren Adams in
Chasing Amy, 1997
Written and directed by Kevin Smith
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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through
a microscope.
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-Josh Billings
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~I was born when she
kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived for a few weeks while she
loved me.
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-Dixon Steele, the character played by
Humphrey Bogart in
In a Lonely Place, 1947
Written by Edmund H. North and Andrew Solt, based on the novel by Dorothy
B. Hughes, directed by Nicholas Ray
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*Love is like Hearts. You
want to follow suit, but you don't want to have the lead.
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-Dustin Fisher
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Hate the sin and love the sinner.
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-Mohandas Gandhi
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To love is to admire with the heart; to
admire is to love with the mind.
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-Théophile Gautier
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As soon as you cannot keep anything from a
woman, you love her.
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-Paul Geraldy
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Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no
way of saving one's ego except by love.
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-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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This is the true measure of love,
When we believe that we alone can love,
That no one could ever have loved so before us,
And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
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-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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. . .that was the first thing that I had to
learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything--
that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more
precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your
palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it--and its choice
to be there--are gone.
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-Barbara Hambly
Dragonsbane
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If two people love each other there can be no
happy end to it.
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-Ernest Hemingway
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He was awake a long time before he remembered
that his heart was broken.
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-Ernest Hemingway
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May you live a thousand years, and I, a
thousand less one day, that I might never know the world without you.
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-Hungarian wedding toast
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*How thoughtlessly we
dissipate our energies,
Perhaps we don't fulfill each other's fantasies.
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-Billy Joel
Turnstiles, 1976
"Summer, Highland Falls"
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*For all our mutual
experience, our separate conclusions are the same.
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-Billy Joel
Turnstiles, 1976
"Summer, Highland Falls"
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Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love
is what makes the ride worthwhile.
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-Franklin P. Jones
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*Might as well try to drink
the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.
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-Stephen King
The Drawing of the Three
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He gave her a look you could have poured on
a waffle.
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-Ring Lardner
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The life that I have is all that I have,
And the life that I have is yours.
The love that I have of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours.
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-Leo Marks
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Come live with me, and be my Love;
And we will all the pleasures prove.
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-Christopher Marlowe
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Where you used to be there is a hole in the
world, which I find myself constantly walking around in daytime, and falling
into at night.
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-Edna St. Vincent Millay
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*It's a bad word,
'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love
shouldn't be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a
mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the
mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do
you see? His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes
through, because the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him
keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him. . .You
can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you
did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody
without you? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You
don't, do you? And neither does he.
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-Guitar, a character in Toni Morrison's
Song Of Solomon, 1977
Chapter 13
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And I know what it means to be free.
Now I want to know how to love you.
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-October Project
"Return To Me"
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Since love is the
most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature
of the soul. If the individual is not sensitive, how can his love be
sentient? If he is not profound, how can his love be deep? As one is, so
is his love.
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-Jose Ortega y Gasset
(cf. LOVE : Rand)
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*We're just two lost souls
swimming in a fishbowl, year after year.
Running over the same old ground, having found the same old fear.
Wish you were here.
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-Pink Floyd (Roger Waters, lyrics, Syd
Barrett, Rick Wright, Nick Mason)
Wish You Were Here, 1975
"Wish You Were Here"
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Be to her virtues very kind,
Be to her faults a little blind.
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-Matthew Prier
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*I am neither foe nor
friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And
to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not
grant my love without reason, not to any chance passer-by who may wish to
claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.
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-The character Equality 7-2521, the hero in
Ayn Rand's
Anthem, 1937
Ch. XI
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*Do I have to tell you that
I love you?
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-Ayn Rand
Private correspondence Frank O'Connor (her husband), August 19, 1936
Letters of Ayn Rand, 1995
Chapter 1, "Arrival in America to We the Living (1926-1937)"
Michael S. Berliner, ed.
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*She thought that they had
not greeted each other and that it was right. This was not a reunion, but
just one moment out of something that had never been interrupted. She
thought how strange it would be if she ever said "Hello" to him; one did
not greet oneself each morning.
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-Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead, 1943
Part Three : Gail Wynand, Ch. 5
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*To say 'I love
you' one must first know how to say the 'I.'
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-Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead, 1943
(cf. LOVE : Ortega y Gasset)
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*[T]he measure of the
hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love.
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-Franciso C'Anconia, a hero in Ayn Rand's
Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Part Three : A Is A, Ch. II, "The Utopia of Greed"
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*I love you, my dearest,
with that blindest passion of my body which comes from the clearest
perception of my mind.
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-Hank Rearden, a hero in Ayn Rand's
Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Part Three : A Is A, Ch. III, "Anti-Greed"
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*Love is the expression
of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities
you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid
by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
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-John Galt, the hero in Ayn Rand's
Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Part Three : A is A, Chapter VII, "'This is John Galt Speaking'"
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The more we love a woman the nearer we are
to hating her.
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-François, Duc de la Rouchefoucald
Maxims, 1665
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Lovers never get tired of each other, because
they are always talking about themselves.
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-François, Duc de la Rouchefoucald
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*She came to admire him
so much that his love for her affected her own self-esteem: She liked
herself better because of him.
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-Carl Sagan
Contact, 1985
Part I : The Message, Chapter 9, "The Numinous"
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Love does not consist in gazing at each
other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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~Love looks not with the
eyes but with the mind;
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
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-Helena, a character in William Shakespeare's
A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1596
Act I, scene i
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*If I never loved I never
would have cried.
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-Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel
Sounds of Silence, 1965
"I Am A Rock"
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Because I love you truly,
Because you love me, too,
My very greatest happiness
Is sharing life with you.
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-Unknown
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There's so much to say but your eyes keep
interrupting me.
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-Unknown
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Within you, I lose myself.
Without you, I find myself.
Searching to be lost again.
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-Unknown
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Once in awhile, right in the middle of an
ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
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-Unknown
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Platonic love is from the neck up.
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-Thyra Samter Winslow
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People who are sensible about love are
incapable of it.
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-Douglas Yates
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You say there is no love, my love---
Unless it lasts for aye.
Ah, folly, there are episodes
Far better than the play.
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-William Butler Yeats
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