“But love, the great narcotic, was the hothouse in which all the selves burst into their fullest bloom...”
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“We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.”
“I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.”
“The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one's whole existence.”
“What I cannot love I overlook.”
Others on Love
Atticus Poetry
20 quotes“From the moment I saw her I knew this onewas worththebroken heart.”
Pablo Neruda
19 quotes“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
Leo Buscaglia
17 quotes“Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both”
Khalil Gibran
16 quotes“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”
Lord Byron
16 quotes“Though I love my country I do not love my countrymen.”
Mother Teresa
15 quotes“Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love.”
Nicholas Sparks
15 quotes“And I'd be willing to bet that you were great at it, if only because you have to love something before you can hate it.”
Rumi
14 quotes“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
John Donne
14 quotes“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”
Shakespeare
14 quotes“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”
Gabriel García Márquez
13 quotes“One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.”
Balzac
13 quotes“Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.”