The common prejudice that love is as common as "romance" may be due to the fact that we all learned about it first through poetry. But the poets fool us; they are the only ones to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

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When two people part, it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches.

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Once we are involved in a relationship, there is no longer any such thing as a minor detail.

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Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.

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One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love.

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If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.

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Though we sometimes suspect that people are hiding things from us, it is not until we are in love that we feel an urgency to press our inquiries, and in seeking answers, we are apt to discover the extent to which people disguise and conceal their real lives.

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Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

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The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once (we soon feel ungrateful) or those who never allow us to kiss them (we soon forget them), but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.

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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.

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