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• I think you can love someone and be infatuated with them, too. But infatuation is immediate, while the sort of love in the West is something you build with someone. It's a trust.

  Simon Van Booy

  Thinking, Infatuated

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.

  Graham Greene

  Hands, Taste, Tongue

  Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]

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• On Creating — What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Eye, Creating, Expression

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• The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation.

  Matt Smith

  Majority, Comedy, Comedy Movie

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• She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing.

  Kate Chopin

  Personality, Special, Details

  Kate Chopin (2006). “Awakening EasyRead Edition”, p.98, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between.

  Lev Grossman

  Crush, Depressing, Relief

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.57, Penguin

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• At 55 I said the probability is I won't have another relationship. I just didn't want to start another family. Between my own bizarre criteria and taste and the fact that I'm not available for many things I thought it was unlikely. Once you know the science about it, I don't think anybody should consider being committed to a real eternal relationship until you're through something called the infatuation circle.

  Jack Nicholson

  Real, Thinking, Circles

  Source: the-talks.com

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• To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Essentials, Language, Englishmen

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.170, Courier Corporation

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• One does silly things when one is twelve.

  Cassandra Clare

  Silly, Twelve, Doe

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.704, Simon and Schuster

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• That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Ideas, Expectations, Atheism

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• He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

  Max Stirner

  Men, Sacred, Interest

  Max Stirner (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and its Own”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

  George Eliot

  Men, Recklessness, Consequence

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.716, Wordsworth Editions

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• I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.

  Yul Vazquez

  Mother, Kids, Names

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• If she was suggesting she was too wise with the weight of her experience to fall prey to infatuation - well, the disproof was sitting before her in the form of a gray-eyed prince with a thoughtful set to his mouth that she found quite distracting.

  Kristin Cashore

  Wise, Fall, Thoughtful

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.165, Penguin

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• The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because they were too lazy to finish their studies. Hence this universal infatuation was not only characterized by blindness and stupidity, but also by vindictiveness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stupidity, Lazy, Talent

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• He stares at me so darkly, so hungily that I can only nod. Agree. Of course, I feel it. "I do", I admit.

  Sophie Jordan

  Staring, Feels, Agree

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• The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Beauty, Beautiful, Party

  "Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence". Book by Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw, Preface, 1931.

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• The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.

  Matthew Arnold

  Children, Nice, Moments

  Matthew Arnold (1973). “Complete Prose Works: English literature and Irish politics”

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• He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Watches, Use

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.102, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• And when you love someone you don’t always see them realistically.

  P. C. Cast

  When You Love Someone, Love Someone, Deathless

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2011). “Awakened: A House of Night Novel”, p.287, Macmillan

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• The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is that most terrible and terrifying of all human notions, love. That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand. Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the world's full octave. Love as Agape, Eros and Philos; love as infatuation, obsession and lust; love as torture, euphoria, ecstasy and oblivion (this is beginning to read like a Calvin Klein perfume catalogue); love as need, passion and desire.

  Stephen Fry

  Passion, Gay, Eight

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• Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore their existence altogether, referring to them only under provocation and then with apology, but, like its more material brother, this boil on the neck of the spirit can hardly be forgotten either by the sufferer or anyone else in his vicinity. The malady is ludicrous, sad, excruciating and, above all, instantly diagnosable.

  Margery Allingham

  Brother, Nice, Apology

  Margery Allingham (1961). “Three Cases for Mr. Campion”

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• American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

  Diane Ravitch

  Education, Business, School

  Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.236, Basic Books

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• You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Self, Finals, Eat Love Pray

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.22, A&C Black

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• Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun

  Larry Wall

  Rooms, Privacy, Shotguns

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