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Quotes About Love

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
~ Anais Nin
I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ
~ Anais Nin
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
~ Anais Nin
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldnt wait to leave.
~ Anatole Broyard
Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.
~ Anatole Broyard
Love, truth, beauty, wisdom, and consolation against death. - Anatole Broyard in his dislike of "Lending Books" from editor Rabinowitz's collection "A Passion for Books
~ Anatole Broyard, Rabinowitz
Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.
~ Anatole France
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
~ Anatole France
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.
~ Anatole France
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
~ Anatole France
Caress your phrase tenderly: it will end by smiling at you.
~ Anatole France
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
~ Anatole France
If you have not loved an animal, your soul remains unawakened.
~ Anatole France
We love truly only those we love even in their weakness and their poverty. To forbear, to forgive, to console, that alone is the science of love.
~ Anatole France
Great courage was required to engage in such an adventure. But George was in love and Freeheart was faithful. And as the most delightful of poets says "What cannot Friendship guided by sweet Love?
~ Anatole France
I love reason, but my love does not make me a fanatic,' Brotteaux answered. 'Reason is our guide, a light to show us our way; but if you make a divinity of it, it will blind you and lead you into crime
~ Anatole France
A religião prestou ao amor um grande serviço, fazendo dele um pecado.
~ Anatole France
MeilÄ—s kaltÄ—s bus atleistos, nes tyroj meilÄ—j nÄ—ra nieko pikta. Bet jausmingoj meilÄ—j yra tiek pat neapykantos, egoizmo ir apmaudo, kiek ir meilÄ—s.
~ Anatole France
Let us love the books which please us and cease to trouble ourselves about classifications and schools of literature.
~ Anatole France
The beautiful things I have seen are still so vivid in my mind that I feel the task of writing them would be a useless fatigue. Why spoil my pleasure-trip by collecting notes? Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
~ Anatole France
The trouble of living a long time is not that one lasts too long, but that one sees all about him pass away- mother, wife, friends, children. Nature makes and unmakes all these divine treasures with gloomy indifference, and at last, we find that we have not loved, we have only been embracing shadows.
~ Anatole France
Dans le salon de madame Clarence, on parlait de l'amour ; et l'on en disait des choses délicieuses.
~ Anatole France
Até termos amado um animal, parte da nossa alma permanece adormecida.
~ Anatole France
A caridade humana é o concurso de todos na produção e na partilha dos frutos. Ela é justiça, é amor, e os pobres a exercem melhor que os ricos.
~ Anatole France