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If you really love a person, you try not to detach her from the world she knew before she fell in love with you. Your primary concern is to preserve her.
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Preserving the person you love means compromising, sometimes even hurting yourself.
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True love is heroic.
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You know that love is starting to crumble when âhonorâ enters the discourse. Love doesnât care about honor or anything else aside from itself. When a person starts to keep the love because of the other personâs honor or because of her own honor, then love is leaving her behind.
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Love is always better than loneliness, but loneliness has always been the more caring emotion. Curiously, loneliness tends to love some people.
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Love doesnât pop out of nowhere. The unconscious mind has the blueprint for love. Our past experiences, beliefs, ideals, even trauma, hold the key to who we can and will love.
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If it hurts in the end, then what you felt was love. If you can let go of it so easily, then what you had was something different, perhaps a spoiled version of it.
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Knowing how to love is the best goal you can set for yourself when youâre in love. Failure must be taken as a lesson, not a reason to ruin yourself, though that is also justified. If you canât improve your ways, then you might eventually run out of love.
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Pride beautifies love. Dogs can love and mate with each other too, but only humans can be proud.
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You donât have pride if you torture a loved one who left you. Youâre pathetic, a scum, a creature who spreads guilt to make up for his inadequacies. You donât make the world a better place and you give love a bad name.
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Love forgives too much.
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Love releases you from a former cage only to let you in another one. Only love has the keys and he decides if and when youâll be free.
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Looking back, itâs easy to see that youâre an idiot when you were in love. You wonder why at that time, you felt everything you did was rational. Love turns irrationality to rationality for a brief period of time.
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Poems can never reflect the true state of the heart in love.
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Similarities? Differences? Love doesnât care about comparisons. These are merely the games we play to pin down the meaning of love. Immaterial, though. Love blossoms and decays even as you decide if two pairs of things are similar or not, even while you ponder if youâre soulmates or not.
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Love is not necessarily pleasurable. It is a whole range of emotions that likes to disguise itself as simply âpleasurableâ so you stay addicted to it.
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Love is a majestic wild bird and our mission is to break its wings and tuck it under our pillows.
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What a wasted life it is to not be loved by someone at all.
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A perfectly performed love is a perfectly lived life. A person can die after that without giving a thought to heaven or hell.
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Weird, but love letters can preserve some of the magic of love.
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Love obliterates everything else in the world through a tight, warm hug and a long, wet kiss.
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Love sends us into a wild goose chase for the Truth. âWhat is she really thinking? Is she thinking about me? Is she missing someone else?â If it were possible to dissect the other personâs mind, we would do it greedily. We know weâre going to get burned but we fly to Truthâs blazing fire anyway.
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Love is so great, so godly that it doesnât give a shit about Truth. In fact, the moment Truth consumes the discourse of love, thatâs a sign that love is already fleeing to somewhere else.
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Lying or deceit may be a closer ally of love than Truth.
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We count our resources when weâre in love. We become too conscious of what we have and what we donât have. We could almost see our resources being spent one by one. The prospect of us running out of wealth is a distant reality. We constantly ask ourselves how to replenish our resources. We want to give so much. Some give everything away. Weâre like mini factories of wonders and surprises.
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When we give something to our loved one, we actually secretly expect her to fall in love more deeply because of it. It is a stupid thought.
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The dead air during conversations of two people in love tells so much about what kind of relationship they have.
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Love takes cues from its environment. Two people will soon get exhausted if all they talk about is how much they love each other. Distractions and side issues do much to fuel the emotion.
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A question begs to be asked: Do we devour each other when in love? To put it another way, do we try to consume each other until thereâs nothing left?
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Romanticism aside: Is falling in love with another person the same as having your fill of another type of food in a buffet table?
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Isnât it funny how we try to trap love through little rings on our fingers, signatures on sheets of paper, and fancy celebrations? Love couldnât care less about the things we do. Itâs either there or not there. Itâs either staying or moving to another place. Actually, itâs always moving to another place, we just try to fool ourselves that it is staying. What stays is the ghost of love, something called âcompanionship.â Others prefer the term âsecurity.â
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Love is a universal feeling but the definition of love is each personâs secret.
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Itâs possible to understand closely how a person feels when in love, but you can never truly feel his complete emotion. Romantic stories exploit the fact that we kind of understand each otherâs feelings when in love. They make you think that this is how you feel when youâre in love. Think about it. Itâs not.
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Does anybody know the point of loving? I donât.
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What you love is actually your interpretation of the person before you. Youâre always loving a filtered image.
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The mark of an intelligent person is the ability to not be surprised by sudden changes in the person he loves. After all, how could one know everything about the other person? Truths about the other person are gained by spending time with her. This collection of information though is a mere side effect of loving. Itâs not the point of loving at all. We do not love to know everything about the other person. That itself is stupid because itâs impossible to know everything about another person. Thus, we shouldnât be surprised if the other person suddenly turns into a monster one dreadful night.
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Anniversaries probably donât tell anything about how much people love each other. All they say is that two people managed to describe themselves âa coupleâ for a relatively long period of time. âAnniversaryâ is just a word. The thing it represents is not necessarily love. It could represent a whole range of things, some of them beautiful, others revolting. The word âchairâ doesnât say anything about the thing it represents. We have a vague idea of what it is but the actual thing is a mystery.
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The road to love is always more exciting than what happens after we reach the goal.
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Love is not the strongest emotion possible. Hatred can overcome it and dismantle everything it has worked hard to build.
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Lust can be more powerful than love. Lust though, is even more fleeting than love. Exchanging lust for love is always foolish.
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You can best see the awesomeness of love if you know loneliness. Rich men donât see wealth, they live normally as far as they are concerned. Poor men though, rejoice when luck gives them a portion of wealth. Lonely people rejoice when luck gives them a portion of love.
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Should one risk everything and give all to love? Itâs a hard question to answer but if you donât, then where else do you plan to risk all and give all? To business? Bullshit. Itâs way better to win in love than in anything else. Itâs a million times better to lose in love than in anything else.
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Some people actually totally, sincerely enjoy being in love. Arenât they the luckiest people on earth?
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Some people realize they are sadder when theyâre in love. Others get depressed once love is consummated. Love is indeed surprising.
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If you think deeper, youâll realize that you can know more about yourself than about the other person when youâre in love. Getting immersed in the emotion is the best opportunity to explore the deepest recesses of yourself. You become aware of your fears, issues, reasons for sadness and happiness through loving another person.
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For some, love is a training for pain endurance. Sometimes, pain itself becomes the only pleasure possible.
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It is possible to extinguish love through over analysis. It is after all, as folks say, a battle between the heart and the mind. Push hard enough for the other side to win and it will. To put it another way, itâs possible to desensitize yourself from love.
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Funny how many of us drink to forget about love. Alcohol tends to magnify emotions. Youâre basically dooming yourself to loving more by drinking alcohol. If you really want to forget, use a drug that destroys the mind: metamphetamine.
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Love is like the favorite son or daughter in a family. Other emotions also have their merits: sadness, hatred, pride, etc. Still, people glorify love like no other emotion. Itâs as if love has a perfect shining record despite the evidence to the contrary.
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Itâs always been said that love is a very strong emotion. But isnât love also fragile? In fact, one mistake of a person and you can immediately fall out of love for her.
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Some people think that âI love youâ simply means âI care about you.â It actually also means, âYou should also care about me.â
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Donât feel too blessed when a person tells you that he loves you. Heâs basically telling you that youâre creating chaos in his life.
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And yet, some people think love is peace. Weird.
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Why are we induced to say âI love youâ to the person we love? What does that sort of activity really do? What is the point of that? Sometimes, I feel like itâs a way to get rid of the feeling, just get rid of it and nothing else. It really shouldnât matter if the other person loves us or not. You can say âI love youâ to a rock and it would have the same purpose â unless of course, you have other agenda. Indeed, some people say âI love youâ to blame the other person and make her feel guilty.
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If love is a kind of sickness, then is everything we do when in love simply self-treatment for us to recover our health? While the primary question when love begins is how to keep it, do our actions say otherwise? Do we really try unconsciously to get out of love once weâre in it?
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Saying âI love you,â holding hands, kissing, hugging, having sex, giving gifts, complimenting, and having fun are all activities to externalize or actualize love. If love is alcohol, then is the act of loving a kind of detoxification?
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Hereâs a funny thought: the world is so crappy because god made it for himself. If the world was made for a goddess, as an offering, as a product of love, it would have been more beautiful. The greatest works of art are a product of romantic love. No wonder the world is so egoistic because it was made out of ego.
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The question of power does not disappear with love. Someoneâs always winning and succumbing in love.
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I find it disturbing when two people in love become copies of each other through love. I just know that someoneâs identity got raped or obliterated.
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Love is usually wonderful.
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Some couples actually make god âthe center of their love.â What? What does god have to do with love? They could as easily make pizza the center of their love and nothing would change.
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Love doesnât have anything to do with trust. Trust is calculated, premeditated, and done with effort â the complete opposite of love. Love is spontaneous, generous, and effortless. Thus, if two people are in love with each other, they should just shut up about trust.
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Talk about trust only when the other person is already falling out of love. Itâs like jolting a dying patient back to life through electric shocks.
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If you think youâre falling out of love, donât talk. Have sex. You just need to be reminded of the pleasures of extreme closeness.
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Love is a controlled corruption of the other person.
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Love is a controlled corruption of yourself.
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Movies and songs say the same things over and over again about love. Yet itâs still hard to learn a single goddamn thing from them. These are mere simplifications of love. Theyâre like bite-size pieces of love, like Chicken McNuggets. Love is the real actual living chicken, yet people who eat live chickens are rare â and mad.
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Weâre so immersed in a stereotypical notion of love that weâve seen most of our actions performed by actors in a romantic movie before. The person who can love originally is worth admiring.
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We need to simplify love to make it bearable. We need to talk about it, write familiar poems and songs about it, do the things that people in love do to simplify it. Love in its purest form is madness. We bastardize it to make it enjoyable.
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Love is not necessarily tragic but tragic love stories are the most beautiful. Love stories that end with consummated love are winking at you with a funny face and crossed fingers.
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Love is amazingly beautiful because it is mortal. Love passes away.
âLove all, trust a few, do wrong to none.â
Gravitation is not responsible
for people falling in love.â
â Albert Einstein
âWhat is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.â
â Fyodor Dostoyevsky
âFind what you love and let it kill you.â
â Charles Bukowski
âI want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.â
â Pablo Neruda,
âNever close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.â
â Charles Dickens
âLook after my heart – I’ve left it with you.â
â Stephenie Meyer,