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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love
One is very crazy when in love
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved
Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love
There is no remedy for love but to love more
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage
Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning , all fear of an end
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