"Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be."
Edna O’Brien, Country Girls
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Bette Davis in Jezebel
"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."
Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
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#quote
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"He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams."
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
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"I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls."
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
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Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep (1946)
"It is love that I am seeking for,
But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind
That is not in the world."
But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind
That is not in the world."
William Butler Yeats
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Grace Kelly and Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief
