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Mark Twain says the frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter…

The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing. – … Continue reading

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Jan Kjaerstad says he was nuts about her…

“..he was ‘nuts about her’, as the parlance of the day had it, as if it were generally recognized that love and madness are adjoining rooms with extremely porous walls.” Jan Kjaerstad, The Seducer

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Evelyn Waugh says to know know and love one other human being…

“… To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.” – Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

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Alain de Botton says one rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to…

“One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.” – Alain de Botton

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Rumi says let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded…

“Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.” ― Rumi

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Hermann Hesse says love must must not entreat…

“Love must not entreat,’ she added, ‘or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.” – Hermann Hesse, Demian

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Victor Hugo says yet it is in this way that love begins…

“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each … Continue reading

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