"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
Widely attributed to Dr. Seuss (Real name of Theodor Seuss Geisel).
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"Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be."
Dramatis Personae "Rabbi Ben Ezra" (1864)
This poem was written about 12th century Abraham ibn Ezra, a sort of "Renaissance man" before there was a Renaissance. The poem is an explanation of the ideas Ezra espoused in his life.
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"Like music on the waters is they sweet voice to me."
Stanzas for Music, st. 1 (1816).
Byron wrote this in a poem, ostensibly to be set to music. The entire poem is loaded with innuendo, and is addressed specifically to the person with whom the speaker is attracted to.
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"I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal."
Letter to Virginia Woolf (21 January 1926), quoted in Love Letters : A Romantic Treasury (1996) pg. 78
Sackville-West wrote this letter to Virginia Woolf, with whom she had an affair. Woolf returned her affection in the form of the novel Orlando, which many recognize as a direct outpouring of Woolf's love. The letter also contains the line, "...you have broken down my defences. And I don't really resent it."
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"Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it."
As quoted in Albert Einstein, The Human Side: New Glimpses From His Archives (1979), pg. 56
Written by Einstein in the margin of a letter, written to him, in German.
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"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love."
As quoted in Women Who Win at Work: Flowers of Wisdom from Visionary Businesswomen (2009) pg. 106
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"Love is not what the mind thinks, but what the heart feels."
No source is availalble. Widely attributed to Greg Evans.
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"What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven."
As a French Romantic writer, love is a topic Hugo visited often, although no source for this quote could be found.
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Bob Marley is known first and foremost as one of the most innovative and well known reggae musicians of all time. Much of his work dealt with the struggles of the poor and the powerless. Bob Marley and the Wailers helped make reggae mainstream, taking it beyond the borders of his homeland, Jamaica. He was also a well-known devotee of the Rastafarian faith, preaching brotherhood and peace for all mankind. Marley was diagnosed with malignant melanoma in 1977, but it was kept secret until he collapsed in New York's Central Park four years later. He was buried near his birthplace at Nine M…
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