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“The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“I may be poor at reading and writing, but when it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.” Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly
“For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.” George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind
“I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to leap out and reveal itself in all its magnitude.” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart of man, love.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a death-like slumber, must always create a sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
“Love is like a tree; it sprouts forth of itself, sends its roots out deeply through our whole being, and often continues to flourish greenly over a heart in ruins.” Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love—just enough to feed the birds.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
“What does the brain matter . . . compared with the heart?” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“But the presence of Odette continued to sow in Swann's heart alternate seeds of love and suspicion.” Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
“I don't know, sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“The very first day that Morland came to us last Christmas—the very first moment I beheld him—my heart was irrecoverably gone.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernal, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart one day, and then the rough burr will fall off.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“I think... of so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Then she thought that life might still be happy, and how miserably she loved and hated him, and how fearfully her heart was beating.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.” William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman. He ought not; he does not.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.” Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.” William Butler Yeats, Ephemera
“a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.” Albert Camus, The Plague
“You have never loved me as I love you—never—never! Yours is not a passionate heart—your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite—not a woman!” Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

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