"Romance is the icing but love is the cake."
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"Ever since I've met you, I've swept you off my feet."
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"As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances."
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"Speak low, if you speak love."
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"Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value."
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"People like me prove that you can survive without romance, even though you end up a bit unbalanced and you tend to argue with your own reflection."
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"Husbands and wives, first, be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day."
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"If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay."
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"Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe. Enthusiasts have purveyed it, careerists have pretended to accept it, imbeciles have believed it."
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"I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem."
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"Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece."
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"I’ve been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. It’s like my last luxury."
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"You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone."
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"Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show."
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"I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger."
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"ever thine, ever mine, ever ours"
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"I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. It's like a Story of O. I am not big on women looking naive. There has to be a sinister aspect, whether it's melancholy of sadomasochist. I think everyone has a deep sexuality, and sometimes it's good to use a little of it-and sometimes a lot of it-like a masquerade."
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"For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
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"I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't."
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"Love is the whole and more than all."
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