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The curves of your lips rewrite history.

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He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last...more

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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

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She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealo...more