"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we
 are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We
 are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been
 lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."
-- Goncourt
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"Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The
 most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice."
 -- Tom Robbins, "Still Life With Woodpecker"
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"Just the thought of being with you tomorrow is enough to get me through today."
-- Anon. 
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"My heart smiled when you kissed my lips. What a sweet suprise."
-- Jan Arden 
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"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
 And therefore is wing'd cupid painted blind.
 Nor hath love's mind of any judgement taste.
 Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
 And therefore is love said to be a child.
 Because, in choice, he is so oft beguiled."
-- Helena from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare 
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"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward
together in the same direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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"This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown,
unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious
awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with
joyous amazement, that this was for life."
-- Thomas Mann
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"Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be.
The last of life, for which the first was made."
-- Robert Browning, 'Rabbi Ben Ezra' 
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"Lust will not keep. Something must be done about it."
-- Inscription on the entrance gate to the Yoshiwara (the red light district of feudal Tokyo) 
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"There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different imitations of it."
-- Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales 
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"Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: For thy love is better than wine."
-- The Bible: The Song of Songs 
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"Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on this wall."
-- Doug Fetherline, 'Your Absence Has Not Taught Me' 
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"Everyman gets the wife he deserves."
-- Midrash: Psalms Rabbah 
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"If passion drives, let reason hold the reins."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac 
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"The eyes start love: intimacy perfects it."
-- Publilius Syrus, Sententiae 
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"Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man, but it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool."
-- Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills: 'Three and -- an Extra' 
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"To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I eyed
Such seems your beauty still."
-- William Shakespeare, 'Sonnet 104'
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How I love the way you move
And the sparkle in your eyes 
There's a color deep inside them 
Like a blue suburban sky 
-- "Heaven" by Warrant, Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich
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But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you. 
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new. 
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life, I love you more. 
--"In My Life" by The Beatles
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if i could
with you i would
be forever,
forever in love
-- Faith Evans
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I knew I found my life's callin'
When you spoke my name
From that moment on, the reason I was born
Became so very plain
Now my heart and soul's, one and only goal
Is to bring you happiness
Lovin' you, is what I do the best
-- "What I Do Best" by John Michael Montgomery
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Lying here beside you, I hear the echoes of your sighs.
Promise me you'll stay with me and keep warm tonight.
So hold me close and love me. Give my heart a smile.
-- "Feels So Right" by Alabama
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And when the night falls on our better days
And we're looking to the sky
For the winds to take us high above the plains
I know that we'll find better ways to look into the eye of the storms that will be calling
Forever we'll be falling
-- "Like the Rain" by Clint Black
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I'm not the hero who will always save the day.
Don't always wear the white hat, don't always know the way.
I may not even be the dream you wanted to come true,
But I'll always be the man in love with you.
-- "The Man In Love With You" by George Strait
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"I'm just a guy who loved the woman you're supposed to be."
-- Draven in Crow: Stairway to Heaven, The (1998) 
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"The truth is that I really do love you, yet it is the curse of my nature that I can desire but not possess beauty. It must always be just out of reach. I've wept for you and for myself."
-- Oscar Wilde in Lillie (1978) 
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"In vain have I struggeled, it will not do. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
-- Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice (1995) 
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"Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can't make up for the lack of it."
-- Aunt Josephine in Anne of Green Gables (1985) 
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"...please know that I'm forever changed because of who you are and what you've meant to me..."
-- Holden McNeil in Chasing Amy (1997) 
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"The only wrong thing would be to deny what your heart truly feels."
-- The Mask of Zorro 
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"I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for."
-- Practical Magic 
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"You will see a lot of things,
But they will mean nothing to you 
If you lose sight of the thing you love."
-- First Sight 
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"I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left. I lived a few weeks while you loved me."
-- Humphrey Bogart to Gloria Grahame in the movie In a Lonely Place 
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Unless it's mad, passionate,
Extraordinary love,
It's a waste of your time.
There are too many mediocre things in life 
Love shouldn't be one of them.
-- Dream for an Insomniac 
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"This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime!"
-- The Bridges of Madison County 
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Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got."
-- Sophia Loren
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"A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't."
-- Murphy's Law of Sex
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"Is is not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"
-- Shakespeare
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"As she lay there dozing next to me, one voice inside my head kept saying, "Relax... you are not the first doctor to sleep with one of his patients, " but another kept reminding me, 'Howard, you are a veterinarian.'"
-- Dick Wilson
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"Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions."
-- Woody Allen
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"As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision."
-- Helen Keller, My Religion, 1927.
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"Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven."
-- Mark Twain
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"Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact."
-- Marlene Dietrich
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"There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex... People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats."
-- Elton John
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"Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion."
-- Mirabeau
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"When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out."
-- Elizabeth Bowen
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"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."
-- Phyllis Diller
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"I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on 'love lyrics."
-- Frank Zappa
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"I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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"A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know."
-- Mistinguett
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"You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap."
-- Dolly Parton
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"I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's eighth husband on her wedding night: I know what I'm supposed to do...I just have to figure out a way to make it interesting."
-- many attributions
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"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
-- Chamfort
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"Thou art to me a delicious torment."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck,
is probably the day Microsoft starts making vacuum cleaners."
-- Ernst Jan Plugge