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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

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Love is a great beautifier. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society. ↗

— Alan Bates

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Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction. ↗

— George Best

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Freedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers. ↗

— Brigitte Boisselier

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Love is a peculiar thing. ↗

— Georg Buchner

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The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Love is so much better when you're not married. ↗

— Maria Callas

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