Former Love Quotes

• Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Love, Life, Spiritual

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• Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part.

  Michael Drayton

  Kissing, Helping

  Idea Sonnet 61, l. 1 (1619)

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• "Gender trouble" is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it's sweet. I mean people are really kind about it but it's like a former love affair you had and you're done.

  Judith Butler

  Sweet, New York, Mean

  Source: ilga.org

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• I loved you: and, it may be, from my soul The former love has never gone away, But let it not recall to you my dole; I wish not sadden you in any way. I loved you silently, without hope, fully, In diffidence, in jealousy, in pain; I loved you so tenderly and truly, As let you else be loved by any man.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Pain, Men, Gone Away

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• Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part; Nay, I have done, you get no more of me, And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart That thus so cleanly I myself can free; Shake hands forever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.

  Michael Drayton

  Time, Heart, Kissing

  Idea Sonnet 61, l. 1 (1619)

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• If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Hate, Love Is

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.125, Commodius Vicus

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• Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Remembrance, Nails

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 2, sc. 4, l. 194

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• We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Enemy, Forget

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