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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

—Joseph Joubert

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Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

—John Ruskin

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The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.

—Philip Roth in The Dying Animal

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

—Helen Rowland

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

—Madame de Stael

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Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our “madness” to unite us, there wasn’t anything much there. Or maybe too much had happened in too short a time. It’s like when you take a trip with someone you don’t know very well. Sometimes you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realize all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travelers, if that makes any sense.

—Gabrielle Zevin in Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

—Jean Rostand

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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

—Zelda Fitzgerald

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Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return—that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.

—Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle

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The best proof of love is trust.

—Joyce Brothers

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If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

—Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

—Nadia Boulanger

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

—Henri Nouwen

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When the right one comes along, you figure it out. You move mountains, you change your life and you do whatever it takes to keep them with you.

—Jay Crownover in Jet

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