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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

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The first duty of love is to listen. ↗

— Paul Tillich

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Why not hold on to whatever I've got because it's as good as it's ever going to get. How can I believe that love is coming, how can I even believe that love exists; if I don't believe it's spiritually based? ↗

— Kenny Loggins

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Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes. ↗

— George MacDonald

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There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing. ↗

— Ziggy Marley

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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Being in love is the only transcendent experience. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

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