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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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The first duty of love is to listen. ↗

— Paul Tillich

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Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it. ↗

— Sean Penn

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Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it. ↗

— William Penn

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I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one. ↗

— Sean Penn

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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. ↗

— Petrarch

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

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Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Love is not a volunteer thing. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. ↗

— Tom Robbins

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