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«The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.»
Author: Anita Brookner
(Author, Historian)
| About:
Romantic love
| Keywords:
impossibility, romantic, romantic love
«The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.»
«Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.»
Author: Fran Lebowitz
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Love,
Romantic love,
Sex
| Keywords:
distorts, drug, fall in, fall in love, illness, pleasurable, romantic, romantic love, saw, the point, The Romantic
«The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality»
Author: Marya Mannes
(Writer)
| Keywords:
diminishes, expectation, greed, intensity, romantic, The Romantic
«Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
bar, catalogue, catalogued, catalogues, downtown, happy hour, personally, romantic
«Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
| Keywords:
annihilation, bodily, celebration, celebrations, defined, female, fulfill, identity, masculinity, mythic, pornography, redeem, romantic, romantic love, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificing, submit, The Celebration, The Sacrifice, willingness
«She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a sense that she was suffering in a romantic cause.»
«Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| About:
Illusion,
Love,
Romantic love
| Keywords:
affair, flames, love affair, or else, romantic, romantic love, The Sweet, turn down
«People have romantic notions about television. In the highest realms they think it's some sort of art medium, and it's not. Others think it's an entertainment medium, it's not that either. It's an advertising medium. It's a method to deliver advertising like a cigarette is a method to deliver nicotine.»
Author: Bill Maher
(Actor, Comedian, Producer, Writer)
| Keywords:
cigarette, deliver, entertainment, it An, method, nicotine, notions, realms, romantic, romantics, television, The Romantic
«Should ever the fine-eyed maid to me be kind; Ah! surely it must be whenever I find; Some flowery spot, sequestered, wild, romantic; That often must have seen a poet frantic.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| Keywords:
eyed, flowery, frantic, maid, romantic, sequester, sequestered
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