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Today Romantic Phrases ideas
❤️“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.”❤️❣️❣️
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❤️“Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot.”❤️❣️❣️
@E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,
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❤️“one of those long, romantic novels, six hundred and fifty pages of small print, translated from French or German or Hungarian or something — because few of the English ones have the exact feeling I mean. And you read one page of it or even one phrase of it, and then you gobble up all the rest and go about in a dream for weeks afterwards,❤️❣️❣️
❤️for months afterwards — perhaps all your life, who knows? — surrounded by those six hundred and fifty pages, the houses, the streets, the snow, the river, the roses, the girls, the sun, the ladies’ dresses and the gentlemen’s voices, the old, wicked, hard-hearted women and the old, sad women, the waltz music — everything. What is not there you put in afterwards, for it is alive, this book, and it grows in your head. ‘The house I was living in when I read that book,’ you think, or ‘This colour reminds me of that book.”❤️❣️❣️
@Jean Rhys, Tigers are Better-Looking: With a selection from The Left Bank
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❤️“Unfortunately, there’s still a market for rubbish. I picked up a recently written fantasy book at the weekend, and one character said of another: “He will grow wroth.” Oh, my God. And the phrase was in a page of similar jaw-breaking, mock-archaic narrative. Belike, I’ faith … this is the language we use to turn high fantasy into third-rate romantic literature. “Yonder lies the palace of my fodder, the king.” That’s not fantasy—that’s just Tolkien reheated until the magic boils away.”❤️❣️❣️
@Terry Pratchett, A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction
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❤️“Adventurer: One who primarily seeks out a partner for life’s adventures (and misadventures), and who doesn’t feel the need for overly romantic gestures, saccharine phrases, or deep discussions about the future. May result in downplaying more serious emotions or situations in favor of “just seeing where it goes.” May result in fun, a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants relationship that keeps both partners excited and fulfilled.”❤️❣️❣️
@Leah Konen, The Romantics
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❤️“for I see in Christ not merely the essentials of the supreme romantic type, but all the accidents, the wilfulness even, of the romantic temperament also. He was the first person who ever said to people that they should live ‘flower-like lives.’ He fixed the phrase.”❤️❣️❣️
@Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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❤️“I have a plethora of adjectives like “luminous” and “extraordinary” tucked away for my consideration. Phrases like “you don’t belong here” to comfort and enrage me, to take home at 5 a.m.
Like a man in a strip club might know where I belong.”❤️❣️❣️@Fen Wilde, Close
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❤️“To what extent did Castro at this point conceal secret communist purposes? He later said that he hid radical views in order to hold the anti-Batista coalition together, and this was probably true. But, though a radical, there is no conclusive evidence that he was then a Communist or even a Marxist-Leninist. Whatever he later became, he began as a romantic, left-wing nationalist—in his own phrase, a “utopian Socialist.” He had tried to read Das Kapital at the University of Havana but, according to his own account, bogged down on page 370.”❤️❣️❣️
@Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., A Thousand Days
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❤️“Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it; despair is a confident memory of the future, in Gonzalez’s resonant phrase. Optimism is similarly confident about what will happen. Both are grounds for not acting. Hope can be the knowledge that we don’t have that memory and that reality doesn’t necessarily match our plans; hope like creative ability can come from what the Romantic poet John Keats called Negative Capability. On”❤️❣️❣️
@Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
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❤️“One horse represents what we may as well call the biological self, guided by what Romantics called the instincts and Platonists called the appetites. The other horse, though, represents what the ancient Greeks called thumos, the spirited or irascible part of the self, the part that responds non-rationally to praise or blame from others, and more generally is guided by the pressures and influences of the community to which the individual belongs. To use a phrase Plato didn’t, where the first horse is the biological self, the second horse can be described as the social self.”❤️❣️❣️
@Frater Acher, Holy Daimon
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❤️“Ichimei’s fingers, capable of returning a dying plant to life or repairing a watch without looking, revealed to Alma her own rebellious, hungry nature. She enjoyed shocking him, challenging him, seeing him blush with embarrassment and delight. She was daring, he was restrained; she was noisy during her orgasms, he covered her mouth. She dreamed up a rosary of romantic, passionate, flattering, and filthy phrases to whisper in his ear or write to him in urgent missives; he maintained the reserve typical of his character and culture.”❤️❣️❣️
@Isabel Allende, The Japanese Lover
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❤️“I liked that used books brought with them their own history—every dog-ear, every stain, every crease. Maybe a book was slightly faded because someone had left it in the sun on their honeymoon. Maybe page ninety-eight was turned at the corner because it contained a glorious insult or the perfect romantic turn of phrase. Maybe the person who’d highlighted nearly every line had graduated at the top of her class. Secondhand books could have lived in tiny walk-ups or hotel rooms or the White House—or, here, even in Balmoral Castle itself. Each book was a mystery, its secrets hidden in plain sight.”❤️❣️❣️
@Heather Cocks, The Heir Affair
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❤️“The problem faced by the company DeBeers, which in 1902 controlled 90 percent of the world’s diamond production, was how to sell to this much bigger market without devaluing the gems in the process. They managed it through a cunning marketing campaign: by concocting the phrase “Diamonds are forever,” they invented the idea of the diamond engagement ring as the only true way to express everlasting love.❤️❣️❣️
❤️Anyone who wished to convince their lover of the truth of their feelings needed to buy one, and the more expensive the diamond, the truer the feelings expressed. The marketing campaign took off spectacularly, catapulting a diamond into millions of households and culminating in a James Bond movie, accompanied by a Shirley Bassey / John Barry song, that enshrined the new social role of the diamond as the embodiment of romantic love.”❤️❣️❣️
@Mark Miodownik, Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
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❤️”Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.”❤️❣️❣️
@Thomas Moore
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❤️”I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy – I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection.”❤️❣️❣️
@Irvin D. Yalom
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❤️”Well, there’s just some universal truths in a way that I’ve just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there are these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.”❤️❣️❣️
@Feist
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❤️”After a life deprived of everything from romantic love to the choice of when to wake up in the morning, after 29 years without the ability to have a career or even to be alone at the toilet, the Bijani sisters are not symbols but women who have had to live a shared life of constant, quotidian sacrifice.”❤️❣️❣️
@Darin Strauss
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❤️”The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that’s it. All the rest of it, true love, is the test.”❤️❣️❣️
@Joan Chen
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❤️”I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.”❤️❣️❣️
@Helen Fisher
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❤️”Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other’s eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.”❤️❣️❣️
@Maggie Gallagher
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Romantic Phrases for Her
❤️”I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don’t last forever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.”❤️❣️❣️
@Mary Archer
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❤️”It is that kind of space, that little space of longing, whether it is in something like romantic love, or whether it’s in something like divine love. You know, that kind of search for something that’s not quite in your grasp. It’s a very powerful place to explore as an artist because it’s not necessarily sad.”❤️❣️❣️
@Anoushka Shankar
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❤️”No, actually ‘The Host’ was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there, obviously, because I enjoy writing about that and living it a lot.”❤️❣️❣️
@Stephenie Meyer
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❤️”I am very lucky. I have known wonderful romantic love in my life but to actually see this little creature and find him to be the most beautiful creature in the world. I know all mothers and fathers feel that way.”❤️❣️❣️
@Anne-Marie Duff
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❤️”When I was a kid, I knew the black and white version of ‘Jane Eyre,’ and I guess I became interested in the idea of romantic love – of unrequited love and the tragedies of that; of what are the important things in life; what should one value over other materials.”❤️❣️❣️
@Cary Fukunaga
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❤️”I’m fascinated by Comte’s clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which is that you’ve got industrial capitalism on one side and romantic love on the other. Those, along with non-instrumental art, are supposed to get you through the day?”❤️❣️❣️
@Alain de Botton
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❤️”Everything ‘Atonement’ does, it does incredibly well, including depicting characters of varying ages and temperaments and showing the intensity of early romantic love and connection and the very different intensity of haunting regret.”❤️❣️❣️
@Curtis Sittenfeld
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❤️”Finding love is a fixation now, and that’s because although romantic love can sometimes cause a lot of suffering, it can also give people peaks of happiness that come very close to our ideal of ‘the happy state.'”❤️❣️❣️
@Francois Lelord
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❤️❤️”Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalizing mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists, and turns of romantic love, but that’s part of the game.”❤️❣️❣️
@Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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❤️”Romantic love is a trap designed to get two people to overlook each other’s faults long enough to get some babymaking done. It generally only lasts for a few years at most.”❤️❣️❣️
@Mark Manson
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❤️”A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane than self-love and friendship love. You can’t do that. You have to honor and really fully invest in all these different loving relationships.”❤️❣️❣️
@Delilah
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❤️❤️”At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.”❤️❣️❣️
@John McLaughlin
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❤️”Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender – not surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.”❤️❣️❣️
@Nathaniel Branden
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❤️”Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.”❤️❣️❣️
@Aberjhani
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❤️”I love the romance in Kimberly Derting’s ‘The Body Finder.’ ‘Cold Kiss’ by Amy Garvey is unbelievably touching – and about so much more than just romantic love.”❤️❣️❣️
@Claudia Gray
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❤️”Well, there’s just some universal truths in a way that I’ve just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there are these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.”❤️❣️❣️
@Feist
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❤️”For my parents’ generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It’s about creating a family; it’s about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a ‘we’ culture. It’s a communal culture where you do what’s best for the community – you procreate.”❤️❣️❣️
@Aasif Mandvi
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❤️”My books are love stories at the core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters.”❤️❣️❣️
@Khaled Hosseini
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❤️”The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm – it’s elation, it’s mood swings, and you’re killing all that when you take the drug.”❤️❣️❣️
@Helen Fisher
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❤️”I don’t want to be typecast as a heroine who does a certain kind of cinema, which is why I experiment with the types of films that I do. But yes, I won’t deny that romantic love stories or romantic comedies are what I enjoy doing the most, because as an audience those are the kind of films that I like watching.”❤️❣️❣️
@Deepika Padukone
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Romantic Phrases for Him
❤️”Romantic ideas about the heart fly in the face of known fact, but that doesn’t matter and never has. People many thousands of years ago knew that the heart is basically a blood pump, but that didn’t keep them from also believing it was the seat of romantic love and all other strong emotion.”❤️❣️❣️
@George Fetherling
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❤️”Romantic love came under attack, first from the Freudians and then from the neuroscientists, who said that being in love was a chemical reaction in the brain. Marriage is no longer seen as a lifetime commitment.”❤️❣️❣️
@Jane Ridley
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❤️”There are so many romantic comedies made, but very few dramas or love stories. And with a love story, you have to take time to develop three-dimensional characters.”❤️❣️❣️
@Gina Prince-Bythewood
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❤️”Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself ‘Remember the purple sky’ when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant to remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.”❤️❣️❣️
@Maggie Rowe
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❤️”Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it – le mot juste – the exact right word in the exact right position.”❤️❣️❣️
@Nancy Kress
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❤️”Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it’s usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favorite is ‘fairy lights,’ which we boringly refer to as ‘Christmas lights.'”❤️❣️❣️
@Sloane Crosley
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❤️”You remember all those phrases about how ‘these people’ – Asians – don’t value human life as we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese.”❤️❣️❣️
@Neil Sheehan
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❤️”The ‘Patriot Act,’ ‘Enhancing domestic security,’ and ‘Protect America’ all sound great – until you realize that they’re catchphrases for programs that contain roving wire taps without a warrant and the collection and sale of your personal information to the U.S. government.”❤️❣️❣️
@Brandon Webb
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❤️”For years, I’ve admired wrist tattoos, but I was always afraid that they would hurt – I’m kind of a weenie about pain. In fact, it’s why I wear so many bracelets on my left wrist. The bracelets represented the words or phrases I’d want to get tattooed but didn’t have the courage to.”❤️❣️❣️
@Rachel Hollis
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❤️”All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.”❤️❣️❣️
@Jiddu Krishnamurti
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❤️”I collect words and phrases and cut things out of newspapers and keep scrapbooks and write down ideas in my phone or 10,000 notebooks all around my house. It’s not very organised, but I keep collecting, so I did have a lot of material to help me to write songs.”❤️❣️❣️
@Roisin Murphy
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❤️”Unfortunately, science cannot be reduced to short, catchy phrases. And if this is all that the general public can comprehend, it’s no wonder that we spend so much of our time in the interminable debate about belief in God, or lack thereof.”❤️❣️❣️
@Greg Graffin
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❤️”(Ever closer union) is one of the totemically controversial phrases in the European Union’s Treaties. It seems to give weight to the view that the scheme is designed to end in a single state and that those who agreed the texts have long known this, even if they have been unwilling to admit it to the British people.”❤️❣️❣️
@Jacob Rees-Mogg
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❤️“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”❣️❣️
@Victor Hugo
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❤️“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”❣️❣️
@Victor Hugo
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❤️“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”❣️❣️
@Victor Hugo
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❤️”Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”❣️❣️
@Tennyson
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❤️“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”❣️❣️
@Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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❤️“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”❣️❣️
@Honore de Balzac
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❤️“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”❣️❣️
@A. A. Milne
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Short Romantic Phrases
❤️“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”❣️❣️
@Michel de Montaigne
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❤️“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”❣️❣️
@Charles Dickens
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❤️“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.”❣️❣️
@George Eliot
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❤️“I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.”❣️❣️
@J. D. Salinger
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❤️“We loved with a love that was more than love.”❣️❣️
@Edgar Allan Poe
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❤️“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”❣️❣️
@Henry Miller
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❤️“I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.”❣️❣️
@Theodore Dreiser
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❤️“How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.”❣️❣️
@Barbara Pym
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❤️“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”❣️❣️
@G. K. Chesterton
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❤️“To say ‘I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I’.”❣️❣️
@Ayn Rand
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❤️“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”❣️❣️
@George Eliot
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❤️“To love another person is to see the face of God.”❣️❣️
@Lawrence Durrell
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❤️“The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.”❣️❣️
@Stendhal
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❤️“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”❣️❣️
@Henry David Thoreau
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❤️“The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.”❣️❣️
@Leo Tolstoy
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❤️“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”❣️❣️
@W. Somerset Maugham
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❤️“Love: the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”❣️❣️
@Mark Twain
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❤️“To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.”❣️❣️
@Francois Mauriac
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❤️“We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.”❣️❣️
@Anais Nin
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❤️“Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.”❣️❣️
@W. Somerset Maugham
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Romantic Phrases in English
❤️“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”❣️❣️
@Hermann Hesse
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❤️“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”❣️❣️
@George Sand
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❤️“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”❣️❣️
@Oscar Wilde
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❤️“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”❣️❣️
@Orson Welles
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❤️“If it is right, it happens—the main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”❣️❣️
@John Steinbeck
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❤️“You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.”❣️❣️
@William Faulkner
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❤️“In love there are two things—bodies and words.”❣️❣️
@Joyce Carol Oates
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❤️“The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It’s followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.”❣️❣️
@Nora Ephron
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❤️“I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it’s coming with all my heart.”❣️❣️
@Alice Walker
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❤️“True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring—once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome…except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen and brighten around them. As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners. And, as is true of any other strong and addicting drug, true first love is dangerous.”❣️❣️
@Stephen King, (Wizard and Glass)
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❤️“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.”❣️❣️
@Rainer Maria Rilke
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❤️“I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty…you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.”❣️❣️
@J. D. Salinger
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❤️“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.”❣️❣️
@Nicholas Sparks
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❤️“We love the things we love for what they are.”❣️❣️
@Robert Frost
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❤️“Love loves to love love.”❣️❣️
@James Joyce
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❤️“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.”❣️❣️
@Henry Miller
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❤️“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”❣️❣️
@Charles Dickens
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❤️“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.”❣️❣️
@Madame De Stael
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❤️“Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.”❣️❣️
@Ray Bradbury
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❤️“To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”❣️❣️
@Mark Twain
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❤️“Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs.”❣️❣️
@William Shakespeare
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❤️“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”❣️❣️
@Orson Welles
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❤️“Who, being loved, is poor?”❣️❣️
@Oscar Wilde
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❤️“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”❣️❣️
@Henry David Thoreau
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❤️“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”❣️❣️
@James Baldwin
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❤️“The heart was made to be broken.”❣️❣️
@Oscar Wilde
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