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"First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time." ~ Honore de Balzac

"I have no regrets. I will never regret loving someone because the feeling of love for five minutes is greater than an eternity of hurt." ~ Kurt Langner

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." ~ Dorothy Parker
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. " ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Self-love seems so often unrequited" ~ Antony Powell, novelist

"No single expression denotes love. It's so complex it requires combinations of expressions. These create an identifiable look. You see something like it sometimes in the eyes of slaughterhouse steers." ~ L. M. Boyd

"When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure." ~ Alice Hoffman

"I have no regrets. I will never regret loving someone because the feeling of love for five minutes is greater than an eternity of hurt." ~ Kurt Langner

"When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters anymore. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace." ~ George Bernard Shaw

"Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one." ~ Marie Corelli, 'The Master Christian', 1900

"There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the taste out of a peanut butter sandwich." ~ Charles Shultz, 'Peanuts'

"In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things." ~ Marcel Proust, "Remembrance of Things Past", 1922-1931

"Take me or leave me, or, as is the usual order of things, both." ~ Dorothy Parker, "A good Novel, and a Great Story" The New Yorker, 1928

"It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have time." ~ Tallulah Bankhead

"I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies." ~ Pietro Aretino

"There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand." ~ Joyce Jillson

"If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised." ~ Dorothy Parker

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell." ~ Joan Crawford

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury, like a woman scorned" ~ William Congreve, 'The Mourning Bride', 1697

"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing." ~ Ninon de L'Enclos

"What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No5, of course" ~ Marilyn Monroe, 1952

"A man is only as old as the woman he feels." ~ Groucho Marx

"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here." ~ Stephen Bishop

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." ~ Germaine Greer

"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then they marry him." ~ Cher

"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone" ~ Anthony Burgess

"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox." ~ Woody Allen


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