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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, ...

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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to...

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I am made only for passion; it is the temperature of love that I cannot endure. I am afraid, and I t...

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Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods,no surprises in bed. Sex must be...

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Down the rusty bars of ladders to the undergrounds of the night propitious to the first man and woma...

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies ...

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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a...

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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others empha...

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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.

And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts...

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I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.

Before, as soon as I came home from all sorts of places I would sit down and write in my journal. No...

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Anaïs NinA Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin Henry Miller

You haven't loved yet," he said. "You've only been trying to love; beginning to love. Trust alone is...

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Anaïs NinA Spy in the House of Love

Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.

I feel a little like the moon who took possession of you for a moment and then returned your soul to...

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And sometimes I believe your relentless analysis of June leaves something out, which is your feeling...

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

The truth is that this is the only way I can live: in two directions. I need two lives. I am two bei...

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though wh...

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

The relief of opening one's hand and letting go was immense. But soon after, I tightened again. A de...

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept becau...

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

Love reduces the complexity of living. It amazes me that when Henry walks towards the cafe table whe...

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

I love you, June, and you know how acutely, how desperately. You know that no one can say or do anyt...

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lo...

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She was sewing together the little proofs of his devotion out of which to make a garment for her tat...

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He had never seen her body so abandoned, so unconscious of all but the desire to be taken and satisf...

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Anaïs NinLittle Birds

They clutch and cling and howl when I leave them, but how badly they love.

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Anaïs NinMirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin

Men can be in love with literary figures, with poetic and mythological figures, but let them meet wi...

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Anaïs NinThe Diary of Anaïs Nin

I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of ...

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I am a woman first of all. At the core of my work was a journal written for the father I lost, loved...

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Anaïs NinThe Diary of Anaïs Nin

June, you have killed my sincerity too. I will never again know who I am, what I am, what I love, wh...

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What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as th...

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How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se?

Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfectio...

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My love is of a birth as rareAs 'tis, for object, strange and high;It was begotten by DespairUpon Im...

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What moved me was the theme of the harmony which is born only of sacrifice, the twofold experience o...

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The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the U...

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In literature, as in love, one can only speak for himself.

It is so delightful to teach those one loves!

As lines, so loves oblique may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours so truly parallel, Tho...

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I see what the joy is; it is the joy of always loving, it is the joy of losing my own life in love t...

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Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condi...

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Love is circumstantial we can love anyone if need be and losing the one we love is the singular cata...

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It is not true that "love is not love which alters when it alteration finds." Love alters all the ti...

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Andrew SolomonFar from the Tree: Parents

To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and ...

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Those who believe their suffering has been valuable love more readily than those who see no meaning ...

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Andrew SolomonFar from the Tree: Parents

Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of lov...

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Andrew SolomonFar from the Tree: Parents

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at wh...

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Andrew SolomonThe Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally impor...

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Andrew SolomonThe Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Unlike a variety of other relationships,friendship requires an acknowledgement by both parties that ...

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The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become fr...

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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

My wife with the hair of a wood fireWith the thoughts of heat lightningWith the waist of an hourglas...

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André BretonPoems of André Breton: A Bilingual Anthology

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

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André BretonWhat is Surrealism?: Selected Writings

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined ...

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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, ...

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She already loved me too much to see me as I was.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

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André GideAutumn Leaves

I say, "it seemed to me," for from the depths of my past childhood, there now awoke in me the glimme...

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But I think there comes a point in love, a unique moment which later on the soul seeks in vain to su...

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Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sand...

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Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, ...

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People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting at...

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Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.

He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himse...

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Angela CarterBurning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories

I speak as if he had no secrets from me. Well, then, you must know I was suffering from love and I k...

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Angela CarterBurning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories

They had imagined too often and too much and so they had exhausted all their possibilities. When the...

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We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how.

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Angela CarterThe Magic Toyshop

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I fee...

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Brad will tell you. He puts a movie on, I'm asleep in 10 minutes. I have no patience. But the kids l...

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If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than the...

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I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and t...

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I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. ...

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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may ...

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You are wrong if you think you cannot live without love, Edith.''No, I am not,' she said, slowly. 'I...

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And without understanding, could each properly love the other?

Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to gi...

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Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a t...

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If that’s what you’re willing to do for someone you hate, what would you do for someone you love?

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Ann LeckieAncillary Justice

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that two people are incompatible that i...

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Once taken by her, you glowedAnd you drank her poisons, content. Because all the stars seemed to gro...

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A town loved with bitter love.

I know: yes, no, even I must tear offThe delicate daisy petals.Everyone on earth is destined to feel...

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Flowers, cold from the dew,And autumn's approaching breath,I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids,Wh...

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

No one else was as close and as open, No one else so boiled my blood, Even he, who consigned me to t...

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You never know if they like you for who you are or what you are. Would he love me or the money?

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was ...

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This rose is not so fragrant as a summer flower, but it has stood through hardships none of them cou...

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I gave up hoping...But, still, I would think of him, I would cherish his image in my mind, and treas...

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