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Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. ↗

— Ann Landers

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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. ↗

— Henri Matisse

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The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination. ↗

— George Meredith

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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears. ↗