“Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.”
Quotes about love
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“Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.”
“First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.”
“To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.”
“Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.”
“A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.”
“There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.”
“The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, boldness.”
“Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.”
“Adultery is the application of democracy to love.”
“Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.”
“Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.”
“Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.”
“Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.”
“Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.”
“Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
“There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.”
“It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.”
“Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.”
“Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.”
“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”
“We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.”
“We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.”
“We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.”