"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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"Love, upon occasion, will draw an elephant through a key-hole."
Ballantyne's novelist's library: Volume 7 (1824) pg. 722
Written in "Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady," this particular quote comes from the villain character Mr. Lovelace (also the pursuer of the title character Clarissa), to his friend John Belford in a letter.
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"To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I.' "
The Fountainhead (1943)
Spoken by the protagonist of The Fountainhead, Howard Roark, to Dominque Francon after she tells him she is marrying another man: Peter Keating, Roarks antithesis.
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Born in Belfast, C.S. Lewis was one of the most influential Christian writers of his day and made significant contributions to popular theology as well as children's and fantasy literature. During his lifetime he wrote more than 30 books, including the highly acclaimed The Chronicles of Narnia, The Four Loves, Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters. Lewis was appointed to the position of Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford and served there for 29 years. A one time devout atheist, he credits friend J.R.R. Tolkien for his conversion to Christianity. In fact, he and Tolk…
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