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The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of...

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When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lo...

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Émile ZolaThe Fortune of the Rougons

The thoughts of othersWere light and fleeting,Of lovers' meetingOr luck or fame.Mine were of trouble...

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All knots that lovers tieAre tied to sever.Here shall your sweetheart lie,Untrue for ever.

As for Fergus. He had a habit which Maud was not experienced enough to recognise as a common one in ...

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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…

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AberjhaniElemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

Now come the whispersbearing bouquets of moonbeamsand sunlight tremblings.

Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and a...

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And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a ...

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As a lover or a dipsomaniac, I've no doubt of your being a most fascinating specimen. But as a combi...

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I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed—not sex—but sex was how...

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Amy HempelThe Collected Stories

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

June, you have killed my sincerity too. I will never again know who I am, what I am, what I love, wh...

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She stumbled then and Geryon caught her other arm, it was like a handful of autumn. He felt huge and...

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Anne CarsonAutobiography of Red

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never ju...

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Anne CarsonEros the Bittersweet

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.

There is always a real and an imaginary person you are in love with; sometimes you love one best, so...

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Anthony PowellA Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Ridges of muscle on his stomach rose under his skin like divisions on a slab of chocolate. He held h...

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Arundhati RoyThe God of Small Things

Woe to the man who in the first moments of a love-affair does not believe that it will last forever!...

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Even if the two lovers are mature and experienced people who know that broken hearts heal in the end...

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To be friends is a beautiful thing, Tessa, and I do not scorn it, but I have hoped for a long time n...

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Tessa, Will, and Jem had raised James in love, and had surrounded him with love and the goodness it ...

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But at that moment she had known, with a certainty she would never feel about anything else in her l...

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my 6 foot goddessmakes me laughthe laughter of the mutilatedwho still needlove...she has saved mefro...

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Charles BukowskiLove Is a Dog from Hell

I know a womanwho keeps buying puzzleschinesepuzzlesblockswirespieces that finally fitinto some orde...

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Swifts, on a fine morning in May, flying this way, that way, sailing around at a great hight, perfec...

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You’ve always got me”“Always?”“Didn’t I just say so?”“Yes”“Am I liar? ““No.” I lied.

This is how it is in life and love. In life and love we are with people for a while, and then we joi...

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I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you. And I did. But that right there was w...

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Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic ...

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Finished in a frenzy that reminded me of our last night in Cambridge. Watched my final sunrise. Enjo...

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We were friends, never paramours. A lover who is enigmatic will most likely prove to be a cataclysm ...

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If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lov...

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Though lovers be lost love shall not.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

He was not sure, but liked it. It recurred when they met suddenly or had been silent. It beckoned to...

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Ah, don't let us undo what you've done!' she cried. 'I can't go back now to that other way of thinki...

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I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there w...

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Yes," I answered you last night;"No," this morning, sir, I say.Colours seen by candlelightWill not l...

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Mr. Thorton love Margaret! Why, Margraret would never think of him, I'm sure! Such a thing has never...

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Conor, I could search the world for another swashbuckling scientist, but I doubt if I would find one...

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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecr...

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian.

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Evelyn WaughBrideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

The sheath that held her soul had assumed significance - that was all. She was a sun, radiant, growi...

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They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

But magic must hurry on, and the lovers remain...

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F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Beautiful and Damned

Every word that he had spoken amongst the amassed beauties of Macmaster furnishings had been a link ...

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But love is strange, as they used to say at the Chameleon Club. Even those of us who value intellige...

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It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in ...

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Fulton J. SheenSeven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do ...

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our two postcard hearts were frightened in unison under the tenacious look of the unfathomable old m...

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Gabriel García MárquezThe Autumn of the Patriarch

You seem to like helping, taking care of people," he said. "That is admirable.""You enjoy being nurt...

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But vilifying those we love always detaches us from them a little. We should not touch our idols: th...

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...perhaps, also this short embrace may infuse in their veins a little of this thrill which they wou...

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And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love...

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Just at that moment, Lucilla happened to cross the lawn at a distance. At sight of her, I could not,...

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If ever you have had a romantic, uncalculating friendship, - a boundless worship and belief in some ...

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He stopped complaining, but now I was annoyed. I went to the roof and drank alone.

Nights without work I spent with whisky and books.

I don't deserve a girl like Hatsumi," Nagasawa once said to me. I had to agree with him.

She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.

My words did not seem to reach her. Or, if they did, she was unable to grasp their meaning.

Then, all but instinctively, I took her in my arms. Pressed against me, her whole body trembling, sh...

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I'd like to have a good long talk with you once you've calmed down. Please call me soon. Happy Birth...

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I don't know, it's stupid being 20," she said. "I'm just not ready. It feels weird. Like somebody's ...

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We have scholars galore, and kings and emperors, and statesmen and military leaders, and artists in ...

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It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the S...

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They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been c...

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Hermann HesseNarcissus and Goldmund

…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to ...

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Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany.

The library door was thick and none of the ordinary sounds that might have reminded them, might have...

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Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is...

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Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.

They knew each other. He knew her and so himself, for in truth he had never known himself. And she k...

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Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before...and it was blissful oblivion, better t...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

and rain will fall on our eaves.

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Jack KerouacThe Subterraneans

When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, b...

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Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think ...

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I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment

She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he wa...

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Jane AustenMansfield Park

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of twenty-six and eighteen, is to do pretty well; ...

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If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opport...

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Jane AustenPride and Prejudice

For though a very few hours spent in the hard labour of incessant talking will dispatch more subject...

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Jane AustenSense and Sensibility

What we seek in travel is neither discovery nor trade but rather a gentle deterritorialization: we w...

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Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all...

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I want to touch you.''And if you did touch me, what then?''I would find a language of beginning.

She puts her hands on either side of my face, and the room falls away. I have never gotten so lost i...

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I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away a...

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The way I see it, he's all we have left ofher.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

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

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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your...

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