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at the start of our together you were the prelude to a vast orchestration. at the end of it all you will have been the most profound and enduring music of my life. ↗

— Mary Anne Radmacher

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Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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I love you,' I say, and I watch his smile bloom I finally get how great those three little words are. I finally get what they really mean. ↗

— Elizabeth Scott

#lauren #love

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#idolatry #idols #love-disappointment #love

Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray. ↗

— John le Carré

#espionage #love #love

Erotic longing is really a longing to merge with something greater than oneself. For every kind of love is a force that holds the promise of taking us beyond the limitations of our individual lives. ↗

— Julianne Davidow

#individual #lives #longing #love #merge

How are you so good at reading me when you can't read anyone else around you?" He sighed, and as he climbed out the window, he said, "I love it. ↗

— Brodi Ashton

#nikki #love

Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for Love. ↗

— Aprilynne Pike

#illusions #love

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company. ↗

— Caspar David Friedrich

#misanthrope #misanthropy #people #society #love

And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?" And I said "Yes," because loving someone is helping them when they get into trouble, and looking after them, and telling them the truth, and Father looks after me when I get into trouble, like coming to the police station, and he looks after me by cooking meals for me, and he always tells me the truth, which means that he loves me. ↗

— Mark Haddon

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