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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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Love is a promise delivered already broken. ↗

— Steve Martin

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I think love is a really hard thing to define. I think it's multifaceted. ↗

— Sienna Miller

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The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. ↗

— Kate Millett

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It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way. ↗

— Kate Millett

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Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book! ↗

— Claudia Christian

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Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ↗

— Michael Novak

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Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain. ↗

— Jimmy Reed

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