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“There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “Crime and Punishment” - 1867

“Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“What is best let alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures.” Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick” - 1851

“I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.” Nelson Mandela, “Long Walk to Freedom” - 1995

“Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.” Andy Warhol, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol” - 1975

“It seems safe to look forward to the time when the conception of attractive and repulsive forces, having served its purpose as a useful piece of scientific scaffolding, will be replaced by the deduction of the phenomena known as attraction and...” Thomas Henry Huxley, “The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century” - 1887

“That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.” John Green, “Paper Towns” - 2008

“The glance has been so much abused in love romances that it has finally fallen into disrepute. One hardly dares to say, nowadays, that two beings fell in love because they looked at each other. That is the way people do fall in love,...” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong! He made me love him without...” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” - 1925

“I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute. Just as some people have a secret love for rainstorms, earthquakes, or blackouts, I liked that certain undefinable something...” Haruki Murakami, “South of the Border, West of the Sun” - 1992

“She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.” Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five” - 1969

“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good...” Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five” - 1969

“I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.” James Joyce, “Dubliners” - 1914

“I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though.” J. D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye” - 1951

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