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We cannot say why. The reason for love is love. The reason for love is that we love.
Vladimir Jankélévitch / 





No reason is needed for loving.
Paulo Coelho





Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.
Paulo Coelho





Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World.
Paulo Coelho





It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
Denis Diderot / 





The wise are wise only because they love.
Paulo Coelho





Hope it is that nourishes love.
Publius Ovidius Naso - Metamorphoses / 





Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion
Wilhelm Reich





Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
Anatole France





Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
Milan Kundera





Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
André Breton





All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy





Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Henry David Thoreau





Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama





May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
Henry David Thoreau





One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf





All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama





Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell





Love is always before you. Love it.
André Breton  / 





His whole life's bright career was love.
Friedrich Schiller / 





It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love—Plus many mysteries.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 





Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
William Shakespeare





Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Oscar Wilde





We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus





One is very crazy when in love.
Sigmund Freud





This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche





The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw





What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche





Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.
Sigmund Freud





The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
Honore de Balzac






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