"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."
"And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?"
"No offense to people who go on Tinder but I just feel like it's ruining romance, I really do."
"I live with romance in my brain. I'm a true-blue Cancerian like that."
"Women are my drugs and alcohol. When I'm involved with one woman, I'm involved with one woman. Period. But between romances, I am carnivorous."
"Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament … There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth."
"Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux."
"It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it."
"In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love."
"Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening."
"There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning."
"Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman"
"Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion."
"To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination."
"The greatest romance is with the Infinite."
"If I'm free, it's because I'm always running."
"There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance."
"Thou art to me a delicious torment."
"Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance."