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Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but looking outward in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 – 1944)

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Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 1881)

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Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870)

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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Denis Diderot (1713 – 1784)

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Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
Marguerite de Valois (1553 – 1615)

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They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

To love one’s self is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)

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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, While loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu (ca. 145-86)

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900)

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