Amour Quotes

• Il n'est rien de réel que le rêve et l'amour.
  (Nothing is real but dreams and love.)

  Anna de Noailles

  Dream, Real, French Love

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• Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

  Germaine Greer

  Jealousy, Men, Jealous Man

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!

  Aphra Behn

  Love, Crush, Dear

  1687 The Emperor of the Moon, act1, sc.1.

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• L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Love Is, Feelings

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• La volupte   unique et supre"  me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Unique, Evil, Pleasure

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• Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

  Marie Corelli

  Mean, Mad, World

  "Wormwood: A Drama of Paris".

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• Une histoire d'amour dont les épisodes ont été mélangés par un fou

  Amelie Nothomb

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• ...Je n’ai pas cessé de l’être si c’est d’être jeune que d’aimer toujours !... L’humanité n’est pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite d’amour, et ne plus aimer c’est ne plus vivre." (I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.)

  George Sand

  Humanity, Life Is, Vain

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• Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.

  Jean Anouilh

  Greatest Love, Ruins, Plus

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• La possession de ce qu'on aime est une joie plus grande encore que l'amour. Possessing what one loves is an even greater joy than love itself.

  Marcel Proust

  Love Is, Joy, One Love

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• In the Middle Ages, the troubadour poets invented the concept of courtly love--a fantasy love, a noble passion, which was also extra-marital and thus inevitably thwarted, illicit, adulterous. One of the medieval terms for it was amour honestus (honest love). I've always wondered why this passionate ideal--masochistic, spiritual-travelled with such wildfire throughout Europe. My poem, a ghazal, takes up the subject.

  Edward Hirsch

  Spiritual, Passion, Europe

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• Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's.
  [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un episode dans celle des hommes.]

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Men, Episodes

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• Love is so simple.
  [Fr., C'est tellement simple, l'amour.]

  Jacques Prevert

  Love, Simple, Love Is

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• Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

  Aldous Huxley

  Laughter, Pain, Emotional

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.86, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• There is a belief that love has its own justification, that it should be experienced as passionately as possible. The French have a wonderful expression, amour passion, which is the ultimate.

  Marilyn Yalom

  Passion, Expression, Belief

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Nulle cre  ature humaine ne peut commander a'   l'amour. No human being can give orders to love.

  Sydney Samuelson

  Order, Giving, Humans

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• We're taking requests from customers who are looking for certain used copies. We already found 18 to 20 Louis L'Amour books that were on a customer's request list.

  Andrew Goodman

  Book, Lists, Used

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• But one always returns to one's first loves.
  [Fr., Mais on revient toujours
  A ses premieres amours.]

  Henri Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville

  Love, Firsts, Return

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• I gave him a smile that I hoped was as dazzling as one of his. "I realized I'm in love." Marcus, startled, looked around as though he expected to see my object d'amour in the car with us. "And you just realized this? Did you just have some sort of vision?" "Didn't need to," I said, thinking of Wolfe's ill-fated trip to the Orkneys. "It's always been right in front of me.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Car, Vision

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• O tyrant love, when held by you,
  We may to prudence bid adieu.
  [Fr., Amour! Amour! quand tu nous tiens
  On peut bien dire, Adieu, prudence.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Love, Tyrants, May

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• The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone.
  [Fr., Le commencement et le declin de l'amour se font sentir par l'embarras ou l'on est de se trouver seuls.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Two, Fonts

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• Our amour fou with 'The Sopranos' is headed for long-term parking, like so many of its most memorable characters. We'll never see a show like this again.

  Rob Sheffield

  Memorable, Character, Long

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• Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I had never been, heard vague incantations, felt the heat of raging fires on my face. And they didn't come out of him, these visions. Rather I drew them out on my own. Yet I never had Nicolas, mortal or immortal, been so alluring. Never had Gabrielle held me so in thrall. Dear God, this is love. This is desire. And all my past amours have been but the shadow of this." — Lestat de Lioncourt

  Anne Rice

  Past, Fire, Vision

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.757, Ballantine Books

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• Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death.

  Lana Del Rey

  Syrup, Velvet, Hitting

  Song: Velvet Crowbar

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• Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love Is, Men, Delight

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