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"The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only."
"The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own."
""And what would humans be without love?" Rare, said Death."
"I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is."
"You will never see a portrait of my love, for miracles are never seen."
"That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjectival version of the word pedophile? You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are."
"The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny."
"It isn't possible to love and to part."
"Don't leave my embrace for here in my arms is your place."
"Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art."
"My wife Margaret is the best thing that's ever happened to me."
"They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation."
"You make me want to be a better man."
"My creed is love and you are its only tenet."
"Your slightest look easily will unclose me, though I have closed myself as fingers, you open petal by petal myself a Spring opens her first rose."
"You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you."
"When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful, romantic idea about love. It was almost that you were a victim - that there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be."
"I hope life treats you kind, and I hope you have all that you ever dreamed of, and I wish you joy and happiness. But above all of this, I wish you love."
"She had bullets in her eyes and they fired."
"Such is my love, to thee I so belong, That for thy right myself will bear all wrong."
