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• I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Relationship, Summer, Heart

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.170, Everyman's Library

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• The highest degree of love is Tatayyum (total enthrallment). The lowest degree is 'alaqah (attachment), when the heart is attached to the beloved: then comes sabahah (infatuation), when the heart is poured out: then gharam (passion), when love never leaves the heart: the nashaq (ardent love), and finally tatayyum.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Passion

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• Infatuation cannot be sustained indefinitely, my friend. Love that embraces the entire person is a monumental gift that takes time to grow.

  Joan Bauer

  Friend Love, Embrace, Grows

  Joan Bauer (2005). “Thwonk”, p.1, Penguin

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• Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Cousin, Jobs, Like Love

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.376, A&C Black

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• Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

  Cyril Connolly

  Passion, Ignorance, Darkness

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• I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Love, Memories, Thinking

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• You never knew this, but I was in love. Okay, infatuated, but it felt like love at the time.

  Teresa Lo

  Like Love, Okay, Infatuated

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• When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

  J. K. Rowling

  Love, Life, Underestimate

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• Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.

  Sylvia Plath

  Dream, Giving, Mind

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.15, Anchor

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• They do not love that do not show their love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Marriage, Valentines Day

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.20

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• I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.

  Sylvia Plath

  Cutting, Fancy, Passing

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.15, Anchor

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• All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs.

  Taye Diggs

  Past, Nicknames, Know Me

  filmcritic.com Interview, www.imdb.com.

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• I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

  Edward Gibbon

  Friendship, Happiness, Sex

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.5026, Delphi Classics

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• Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

  Taylor Swift

  Falling In Love, Passion, Frustration

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• Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, I Miss You, Good Night

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 176

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• One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

  Cesare Pavese

  Love, Doe, Misery

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950”, New York : Walker

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• Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Women, Who Cares, Accessories

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”, New York, Farrar

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• Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Jobs, World, Rivals

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

  George Eliot

  Self, Vision, Height

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.165, Booklassic

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• After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Computer, Burnt Out, Infatuated

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• I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.

  Zachary Quinto

  Voice, Maelstrom, Matter

  "Career Zigzag, Changing Coasts And Galaxies" by David Rooney, www.nytimes.com. October 21, 2010.

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• I stalk about her door, like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for waftage.

  William Shakespeare

  Doors, Soul, Strange

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1853). “The Family Shakspeare: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family”, p.48

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• Don't divide the world into "them" and "us."

  Donald Rumsfeld

  World, Rivals, Resentment

  Donald Rumsfeld (2004). “The World According to Rummy”, Welcome Rain Publishers

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• Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

  Henry James

  Men, Ninety Nine, Class

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.1147, Delphi Classics

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• Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.

  Judith Viorst

  Sexy, Smart, Love Is

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