"Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object."
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"Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides."
"Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love."
"All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that awaits one there. It is for this reason that love is so desperately sought and so cunningly avoided. Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
"My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy."
"When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine."
"Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification."
"It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory."
"Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is weak and needs him."
"Knightly love is blent with reverence As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue."
"The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet."
"Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being."
"True love is impossible for those to whom principles mean little."
"All love is really God's love."
"Love is not found in the market."
"No love is foule, nor prison fair."
"Love is just around the corner Any cozy little corner Love is just around the corner When I'm around you"
"Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna"
"Robert wanted to be loved. My brother Tyrion has the same disease. Do you want to be loved, Sansa?” “Everyone wants to be loved.” “I see flowering hasn’t made you any brighter,” said Cersei. “Sansa, permit me to share a bit of womanly wisdom with you on this very special day. Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same."
"... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot."