• Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

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  Robert Bresson

  Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century

  3.7 · 16 votes · 9 reads

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• That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.7 · 53 votes · 141 reads

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• The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.7 · 53 votes · 122 reads

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• The best way to know God is to love many things.

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  Vilfredo Pareto

  EconomistItaly1848 · 19th century

  3.5 · 8 votes · 23 reads

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• The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so - or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.7 · 50 votes · 80 reads

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• The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.0 · 34 votes · 82 reads

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• The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.1 · 41 votes · 176 reads

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• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves. - Hugo, Victor

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.4 · 34 votes · 185 reads

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• The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  3.1 · 24 votes · 177 reads

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• The hottest love has the coldest end.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  4.9 · 6 votes · 75 reads

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• The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.8 · 27 votes · 42 reads

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• The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  4.2 · 24 votes · 106 reads

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• The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

  PoetFrench1821 · 19th century

  3.6 · 22 votes · 195 reads

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• The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.2 · 61 votes · 87 reads

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• The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

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  Vilfredo Pareto

  EconomistItaly1848 · 19th century

  3.6 · 33 votes · 71 reads

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• The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.3 · 21 votes · 123 reads

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• The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. - Disney, Walt

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  Wallace Stevens

  PoetAmerican1879 · 19th century

  3.1 · 12 votes · 200 reads

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• The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

  

  Honore de Balzac

  NovelistFrench1799 · 18th century

  3.1 · 7 votes · 78 reads

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• The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 36 votes · 170 reads

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• The only victory over love is flight.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.6 · 23 votes · 160 reads

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• The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.0 · 33 votes · 123 reads

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• The root of the matter… the thing I mean… is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.8 · 63 votes · 29 reads

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• The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 10 votes · 105 reads

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• The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.3 · 51 votes · 40 reads

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• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  4.9 · 58 votes · 11 reads

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• The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

  

  Igor Stravinsky

  MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century

  4.6 · 41 votes · 121 reads

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• The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  3.8 · 55 votes · 133 reads

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• The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  4.1 · 55 votes · 73 reads

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• The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.5 · 52 votes · 181 reads

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• The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great -quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  4.4 · 30 votes · 162 reads

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• There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.3 · 51 votes · 4 reads

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• There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.9 · 37 votes · 60 reads

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• There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 28 votes · 50 reads

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• There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  3.4 · 36 votes · 177 reads

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• There is a law that man should love his neighbour as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

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  Alfred Adler

  ScientistAustrian1870 · 19th century

  4.8 · 16 votes · 146 reads

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• There is a voice inside which speaks and says: 'This is the real me!'

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.2 · 37 votes · 32 reads

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• There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.3 · 21 votes · 144 reads

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• There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

  

  Jean Anouilh

  PlaywrightFrench1910 · 20th century

  3.6 · 10 votes · 91 reads

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• There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.8 · 53 votes · 77 reads

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• There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

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  Martial Marcus Valerius

  PoetRoman38 · 1st century

  3.3 · 8 votes · 185 reads

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• There is no remedy for love than to love more.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.1 · 26 votes · 73 reads

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• There is only one happiness in life - to love and to be loved.

  

  George Sand

  WriterFrench1804 · 19th century

  4.7 · 25 votes · 86 reads

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• There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.1 · 61 votes · 119 reads

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• These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  3.4 · 50 votes · 89 reads

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• They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.2 · 40 votes · 176 reads

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• This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  5.0 · 57 votes · 175 reads

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• Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 30 votes · 21 reads

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• Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.5 · 33 votes · 99 reads

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• To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  4.9 · 47 votes · 195 reads

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• To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

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  Francesco Petrarch

  PoetItaly1034 · 11th century

  3.4 · 62 votes · 22 reads

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• To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  4.2 · 15 votes · 5 reads

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• To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.8 · 32 votes · 105 reads

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• To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 47 votes · 132 reads

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• To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

  

  Jorge Luis Borges

  WriterArgentinian1899 · 19th century

  3.2 · 16 votes · 198 reads

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• To love a thing means wanting it to live.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  3.8 · 35 votes · 117 reads

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• To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.3 · 14 votes · 9 reads

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• To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  3.5 · 25 votes · 35 reads

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• To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.2 · 23 votes · 166 reads

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• Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incomp

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  Edmond de Goncourt

  WriterFrench1822 · 19th century

  4.1 · 40 votes · 69 reads

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• True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.5 · 11 votes · 179 reads

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• True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

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  Spanish proverb

  Spanish

  3.6 · 21 votes · 72 reads

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• True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 21 votes · 89 reads

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• We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.4 · 15 votes · 133 reads

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• We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  5.0 · 63 votes · 80 reads

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• We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.5 · 15 votes · 182 reads

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• We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.6 · 9 votes · 176 reads

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• We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.8 · 24 votes · 146 reads

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• We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness - but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.1 · 38 votes · 176 reads

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• We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.6 · 16 votes · 17 reads

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• We must love one another or die.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.3 · 63 votes · 97 reads

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• We that are true lovers run into strange capers.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.1 · 15 votes · 130 reads

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• We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 24 votes · 101 reads

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• We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

  

  John Lennon

  MusicianBritish1940 · 20th century

  3.1 · 21 votes · 77 reads

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• Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

  

  Saint Augustine

  TheologianRoman354 · 4th century

  4.3 · 47 votes · 64 reads

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• What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  3.2 · 40 votes · 47 reads

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• What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  3.1 · 28 votes · 10 reads

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• What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.8 · 54 votes · 126 reads

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• What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 54 votes · 148 reads

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• What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

  

  John Gay

  PoetEnglish1685 · 17th century

  5.0 · 10 votes · 159 reads

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• What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 10 votes · 159 reads

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