"It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream."
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"Nobody gets to say who we love, or who we lay down beside, or take as our husband, lover, life, or bride. Nobody gets to decide what's for some, that others should hide. Pride. Nobody gets to choose but YOU."
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"The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment."
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"We do what only lovers can: make a gift out of necessity."
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"I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near."
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"Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word."
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"No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover."
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"I have had no true friends, only lovers."
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"Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love."
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"As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead."
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"And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine"
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"Trust me--with women worth the being won, The softest lover ever best succeeds."
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"If the husband is always the prime suspect, the lover must be second in line."
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"So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom."
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"Love is blind, it stops lovers seeing the silly things they do."
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"Lord, how Thou dost afflict Thy lovers!"
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"No oath can be too binding for a lover."
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"I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object."
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"However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers."
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"Where you are, whatever your condition is; Always try to be a lover."
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