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For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
-Francis Bacon
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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
-Francis Bacon
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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
-Pearl Bailey
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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
-Pearl Bailey
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Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
-Ray Stannard Baker [David Grayson]
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
-James Baldwin
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
-James Baldwin
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
-Honore de Balzac
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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.
-Richard Bandler
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I leave before being left. I decide.
-Brigitte Bardot
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Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.
-Julian Barnes
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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
-Natalie Clifford Barney
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Lovers should also have their days off.
-Natalie Clifford Barney
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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-Amelia E. Barr
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If you have it Love, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
-James Barrie
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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-Lynda Barry
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Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
-John Barrymore
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
-Roland Barthes
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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.
-Georges Bataille
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
-Orlando A. Battista
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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.
-Charles Baudelaire
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The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
-Charles Baudelaire
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
-Jean Baudrillard
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
-Jean Baudrillard
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.
-Jean Baudrillard
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