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"Though no one notices at the time, in-loveness obliterates the humanity of the beloved. One does a curious kind of insult to another by falling in love with him, for we are really looking at our own projection of God, not at the other person. If two people are in love, they tread on star dust for a time and live happily ever after--that is so long as this experience of divinity has obliterated time for them. Only when they come down to earth do they have to look at each other realistically and only then does the possibility of mature love exist. If one person is in love and the other not, the cooler one is likely to say, "We would have something better between us if you would look at me rather than at your image of me." --
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romantic-love
shadow
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Robert A. Johnson |
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I believe that in matters of the heart there is no such thing as compromise. Love means that you give each other everything.
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romance
trust
love
romantic-love
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Milan Kundera |
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In the Dodge City of romantic love, crowded with betrayal, abandonment and rejection, it was better to fire first than to take the risk of being gunned down.
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gunned-down
romantic-love
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Edward St. Aubyn |
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My father once told me love is magic, sir.
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romantic-love
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Victoria Alexander |
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I know girls aren't supposed to tell, but I've got to tell--just in case you should fail to love me because you never knew how much I loved you. I want not to have to say later--I wish I'd told him.
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romance
love
if-only
declaration-of-love
henry-and-cato
iris-murdoch
romantic-love
gender-roles
unrequited-love
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Iris Murdoch |
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Just as mind rises up and rebels at un unskillful attempt to subdue it in meditation, a relationship will fall apart if the partners are not respectful of each other's differences. <...> Separateness and connection make each other possible; they are not mutually exclusive.
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relationships
love
couples
separateness
romantic-love
differences
connection
desire
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Mark Epstein |
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I have been wondering this summer why our love has seemed deeper, tenderer than ever before. It's taken us twenty-five years, almost, but perhaps at last we are willing to let each other be; as we are; two diametrically opposite human beings in many ways, which has often led to storminess. But I think we are both learning not to chafe at the other's particular ness.
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romantic-love
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Madeleine L'Engle |