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"We can only learn to love by loving."



Iris Murdoch



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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

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Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.

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I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear.

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To love is to burn, to be on fire.

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We must be our own before we can be another’s.

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I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.

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I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.

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If I know what love is, it is because of you.

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Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

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Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person.

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A life lived in love will never be dull.

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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

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Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.

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You make me want to be a better man.

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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.

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A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

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To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.

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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

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The love we give away is the only love we keep.

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As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

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Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.

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Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

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True love stories never have endings.

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