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

— Anita Brookner

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Love is energy of life. ↗

— Robert Browning

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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life. ↗

— Truman Capote

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Love is the funeral of hearts. ↗

— Ville Valo

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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ↗

— William Cowper

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Love is suffering. One side always loves more. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

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To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

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Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

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