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Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast · 1964

Love Quotations

“Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.”

Ernest Hemingway · A Moveable Feast, 1964 · Primary source

“Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.”

Jack London · The Call of the Wild, 1903 · Primary source

“I think it’s the same with all relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn’t care if the other is alive or dead, then it’s just no good.”

Ian Fleming · For Your Eyes Only, 1960 · Primary source

“Love, cough, and a smoke, can’t well be hid.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands and wrote my will across the sky in stars.”

T. E. Lawrence · Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1926 · Primary source

“The most beautiful time is the first period of falling in love, when, from every encounter, every glance, one fetches home something new to rejoice over.”

Søren Kierkegaard · Either/Or, 1843 · Primary source

“The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.”

Eleanor Roosevelt · The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1961 · Primary source

“He touched her for the last time and then they turned away from each other and walked off into their different lives.”

Ian Fleming · Moonraker, 1955 · Primary source

“Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.”

Ernest Hemingway · For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940 · Primary source

“Love seeketh not itself to please,
  Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
  And builds a heaven in hell’s despair”

William Blake · Songs of Experience, 1794 · Primary source

“Where should we go? I don’t care. Anywhere you want. Anywhere we don’t know people.”

Ernest Hemingway · A Farewell to Arms, 1929 · Primary source

“If you would be loved, love and be lovable.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Oh, Jake,” Brett said, “we could have had such a damned good time together.”
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me.
“Yes,” I said. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?”

Ernest Hemingway · The Sun Also Rises, 1926 · Primary source

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Love

8 authors · 12 works · 26 themes · 47 tags
Authors
Benjamin Franklin American statesmanErnest Hemingway American writerWilliam Blake English poet and artist
Works
Poor Richard’s Almanack Benjamin Franklin · 1732-1758The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway · 1926A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway · 1929
Themes
Travel as a test of relationshipsAffection shaping shared experienceDiscovery of love
Tags
AffectionLoveRelationshipsSacrifice
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