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Quotes About Love

I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh; but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do so.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago - but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man's child. She could fade and wither - I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t'aimais, je t'aimais! And there were times when I knew how you felt, and it was hell to know it, my little one. Lolita girl, brave Dolly Schiller.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The meaning of our whole life and existence is love. It is love to the family, to the children, to the motherland (the world). This phenomenon which appears complicated lies at heart of any of our behaviors. It is exactly the top priority which all of us should go after, and I am absolutely sure that we will succeed.
~ Vladimir Putin
Little girl whom do you love more, mama or papa? -Stalin!
~ Vladimir Voinovich
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
~ Voltaire
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes in the twinkling of an eye, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delights of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed. I shall love you until I die.
~ Voltaire
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination
~ Voltaire
Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing [superstition], and love those who love you.
~ Voltaire
I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
~ Voltaire
Love truth, and pardon error.
~ Voltaire
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
~ Voltaire
women lose control when they're afraid and that men lose control when they're in love.
~ Unknown
Perhaps that is the only way that true love can work, when it is prepared for and embraced without thought, without choice.
~ Unknown
I nuzzled them both to remind them that there was really no need to grieve, since I was okay and really a much better pet than Smokey ever was.
~ Unknown
This was, I decided, my purpose as a dog, to comfort the boy whenever he needed me.
~ Unknown
I was his dog, and he was my boy. I loyally remained where I was. I had fulfilled my purpose.
~ Unknown
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
~ Unknown
One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
~ W. B. Yeats
We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love
~ W. B. Yeats