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Victoria Erickson says soulmates aren’t the ones who make you happiest…

“Soulmates aren’t the ones who make you happiest, no. They’re instead the ones who make you feel the most. Burning edges and scars and stars. Old pains and pangs, captivation and beauty.  Strain and shadows and worry and yearning.  Sweetness … Continue reading

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Thomas Moore says love releases us into the realm of divine imagination…

“Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of its unearthly cravings and needs. We think that when a lover inflates his loved one he is failing to acknowledge her flaws – … Continue reading

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Thomas Hardy says to be loved to madness–such was her great desire…

“To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for … 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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Francois Sagon says I have loved to the point of madness…

“I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.” – Francois Sagon

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Cristina Nehring says love is ecstasy and injury…

“At its strongest and wildest and most authentic, love is a demon. It is a religion, a high-risk adventure, an act of heroism. Love is ecstasy and injury, transcendence and danger, altruism and excess. In many ways, it is a … Continue reading

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Pedro Calderon de la Barca says when love is not madness…

“When love is not madness it is not love.” – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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