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We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
Mignon McLaughlin
2.
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
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Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
Jim Morrison
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An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.
George Crabbe
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Faces come and faces go in circular rotation.But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation.
Don McLean
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Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real
Jodi Picoult
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love is reliable. infatuation is temporary.
Ann Hood
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
George Eliot
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I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.
Sylvia Plath
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
John Donne
12.
No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.
Mignon McLaughlin
13.
All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs.
Taye Diggs
14.
You never knew this, but I was in love. Okay, infatuated, but it felt like love at the time.
Teresa Lo
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Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation.
Ellen Hopkins
17.
After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
Eric Allin Cornell
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Infatuation means, 'A love that it is inconvenient to go on with.
Celia Fremlin
19.
Infatuation cannot be sustained indefinitely, my friend. Love that embraces the entire person is a monumental gift that takes time to grow.
Joan Bauer
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You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self.
Elizabeth Gilbert
21.
What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.
Steig Larsson
22.
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
23.
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
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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
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If somebody never gets enough of you, they will always want more
Ashly Lorenzana
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I have an enduring, very robust infatuation with dictators. I have an infatuation with Stalin, Mao, and Mussolini. In the Paris Review interview I did (in 2013), I said my next book, this one, was going to be about Mussolini. I wound up only having a Mussolini cameo in the book.
Mark Leyner
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And when you love someone you don’t always see them realistically.
P. C. Cast
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To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.
Mahatma Gandhi
30.
I'm always looking for insights into the real Doris Day because I'm stuck with this infatuation and need to explain it to myself.
John Updike
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Infatuation was a good thing. It gave spice to life, and added to its enjoyment... But it was different from love. Love was worth everything, and couldn't be exchanged for anything.
Paulo Coelho
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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
33.
The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation.
Matt Smith
34.
I was grateful for cereal --- the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle.
Craig Thompson
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I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.
Loretta Chase