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“The fact is that love is of two kinds—one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“Didst thou but know the inly touch of love, Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow As seek to quench the fire of love with words.” William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Love is the most selfish of all the passions.” Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
“Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.” Jack London, The Call of the Wild
“If one's strong one loves only the more strongly.” Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
“There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.” William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
“She was at the modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called 'having a fancy for.' It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.” Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
“A blaze of love, and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.” Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
“Once you've felt what it means to love as you and I know it— the total passion for the total height—you're incapable of anything less.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this, that you call love, to be a sect or scion.” William Shakespeare, Othello
“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
“My life—my whole life. Take it, and do with it what you will. . . . I love you—love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly, madly! You did not know it then—you know it...” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't bum together, I'll burn alone.” Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction
“she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.” Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
“We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.” Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings—a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.” Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
“Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

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