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I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. ↗

— François de La Rochefoucauld

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Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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I must have loved you a lot. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

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Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter. ↗

— Melissa Marr

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I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Is it really love to tell someone that if it came down to picking between them and every other life on the planet, you’d pick them? Is that — I don’t know, is that a moral sort of love at all?" "Love isn’t moral or immoral," said Clary. "It just is." "I know," Simon said. "But the actions we take in the name of love, those are moral or immoral. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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