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Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter. ↗

— Jean Racine

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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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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. ↗

— Robert Burton

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As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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To fail to love is not to exist at all. ↗

— Mark Van Doren

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Love is not in our choice but in our fate. ↗

— John Dryden

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Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

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Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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