Ellen DeGeneres
Comedian, Television Host
"Romance often begins by a splashing waterfall and ends over a leaky sink."
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U.G. Krishnamurti
Philosopher
"There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict."
Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"The greatest romance is with the Infinite. You have no idea how beautiful life can be. When you suddenly find God everywhere, when He comes and talks to you and guides you, the romance of divine love has begun."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"To love is to be vulnerable."
Ella Fitzgerald
Jazz Singer
"You take romance - I'll take Jell-O."
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"Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual."
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"Love is my religion - I could die for it."
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"Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you."
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"I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose."
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"Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement."
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"The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before."
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"Love is a serious mental disease."
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"A fantabulous night to make romance."
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"I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you."
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"Love means to commit yourself without guarantee."
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"And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love,that trust."
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"There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance."
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"I've been in love with you since the very beginning. You asked why there isn't anyone else in my life, and the reason... is you" - J.D."
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"Till I loved I never lived."
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"In every living thing there is the desire for love."
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"We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost."
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"It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal."
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"And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?"
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"No offense to people who go on Tinder but I just feel like it's ruining romance, I really do."
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"I live with romance in my brain. I'm a true-blue Cancerian like that."
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