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Letter "R" » romantic love
«The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.»
Author: Andrew Sullivan
| About:
Friendship,
Marriage
| Keywords:
friendships, gay, gays, gay and, gay marriage, Marriages, most successful, romantic, romantics, romantic love, straight, The Romantic
«We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.»
Author: Andre Maurois
(Biographer, Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Love,
Romantic love
| Keywords:
gunpowder, inventions, middle ages, romantic, romantic love
«The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.»
Author: Anita Brookner
(Author, Historian)
| About:
Romantic love
| Keywords:
impossibility, romantic, romantic love
«The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.»
«Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.»
Author: Fran Lebowitz
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Love,
Romantic love,
Sex
| Keywords:
distorts, drug, fall in, fall in love, illness, pleasurable, romantic, romantic love, saw, the point, The Romantic
«In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.»
Author: Margaret Chase Smith
(Senator)
| About:
Love,
Romantic love
| Keywords:
romantic, romantic love
«Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
| Keywords:
annihilation, bodily, celebration, celebrations, defined, female, fulfill, identity, masculinity, mythic, pornography, redeem, romantic, romantic love, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificing, submit, The Celebration, The Sacrifice, willingness
«It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it.»
Author: Leo F. Buscaglia
| About:
Choice,
Love,
Romantic love
| Keywords:
accepted, as such, counter, countered, counters, expound, expounding, expounds, For some, generally accepted, inborn, romantic, romantic love, theory of
«Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| About:
Illusion,
Love,
Romantic love
| Keywords:
affair, flames, love affair, or else, romantic, romantic love, The Sweet, turn down
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