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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 A. Baldwin

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I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society. ↗

— Alan Bates

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough. ↗

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top. ↗

— Jimmy Dean

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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists. ↗

— Anita Brookner

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I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out. ↗

— Richard Burton

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The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. ↗

— Lord Byron

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