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Besides, those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicia...

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Marcel ProustIn the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

This form of love is like the painof childbirth: so intenseit's hard to remember afterwards,

He loved her; in some ways he was devoted to her. But he couldn't reach her, and it was the same on ...

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Marriage is always something of a compromise, as I'm sure you're now aware. Any long-term relationsh...

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For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was ...

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Miranda JulyNo One Belongs Here More Than You

It seems to me that our lives are consumed by countless wasting years, but only a few shining moment...

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When we first split up, he called me a stalker, but that's like an emotive word, "stalker", isn't it...

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The air felt different in my lungs. The world no longer looked the same. You change and then you cha...

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Love brought its tail of pains,its long static beam of thorns,and we close our eyes so that nothing,...

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All she knew was that she must be in love with someone, or she wouldn't feel so miserable.

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Philip PullmanTwo Crafty Criminals!: and how they were Captured by the Daring Detectives of the New Cut Gang

Need we go into details about what I said to Judy? I am no poet, and I suppose what I said was very ...

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But I knew what it said. That I could be imperfect, but only so much. Human, but only within limits....

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Love is so unpredictable. Sometimes you'll know a man for years and then one day, boom! Suddenly you...

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It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other pe...

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Susan SontagReborn: Journals and Notebooks

I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.

You must have brought the bad weather with youThe sky's the color of leadAll you've left me is a fea...

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It was awful, he cried, awful, awful!Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life...

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He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.

I know: yes, no, even I must tear offThe delicate daisy petals.Everyone on earth is destined to feel...

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he cou...

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Arundhati RoyThe God of Small Things

The men in my life have always been the folks who are wary of using the word 'love' lightly. They ar...

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You just like me because I’m safe. There’s no risk. And then you never have to try to have a real re...

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Love is a contradiction... Jace to Clary

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers - lovely, but dead.

Must I go bound while you go freeMust I love a manwho doesn't love meMust I be born with so little a...

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And the answer is yes. I have loved you. I always have, and I always will.

When you screw someone's life, the least you can do is leave the person alone.

Everybody has an addiction mine happens to be you

One day you're going to remember me and how much i loved you...then you're gonna hate yourself for l...

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Who will ever kiss this encyclopedia of a head?

And I, could I stand byAnd see you freeze,Without my right of frost, Death's privilege?

she died of internal weeping

My courage is faith--faith in the eternal resilience of me--that joy'll come back, and hope and spon...

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All right then, I’ll be mad at you on this score, which incidentally is no great misfortune, as thin...

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Someday you'll find the placeIt's the place where love takes over hateThen you'll see all the things...

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Love doesn't think like that. All right, it's blind as a bat--''Bats have radar. Yours doesn't seem ...

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And you’ll miss me more as the narrowing weeks wing by. Someday duly, oneday truly, twosday newly, t...

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Sometime the worst type of weapon in the world is love.

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Jane AustenPride and Prejudice

What is it that you contain? The dead, time, light patterns of millenia opening in your gut. What is...

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Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when hea...

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And Nurd, who had never had a mother and father, and who had never loved or been loved, marvelled at...

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Farewell, ungrateful traitor, Farewell, my perjured swain;Let never injured creature Believe a man a...

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But I believe in true love, you know? Idon’t believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not g...

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If people were rain I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane.

But despite such energetic mental exercise, the ghosts of time present would intrude and drive his d...

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It may be a crush, or hero worship (...), it may not be love, but if you've never felt anything stro...

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