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You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. when you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, the kind that makes you fall in love with the first thing you meet. It could be a duck-billed platypus.
Umberto Eco
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when you fall in love with somebody your love for them stays with you for... ANONYMOUS It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel... DAVID LEVITHAN You fall in love with glass, as you fall in love with Venice, as you fall in love with life. It's so... ELEANORA GARDINI When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. It's obsession at first sight. THOMAS BOSWELL I think it's kind of like you fall in love with the person, like you fall in love with the script. HEATHER GRAHAM If you have to fall in love, fall in love with the magnificent beauty of a sunset. That love will be... DEBASISH MRIDHA You feel uplifted when fall in love. TOBA BETA We don't fall in love with people because they're good people. We fall in love with people whose dar... C. JOYBELL C. You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of ... KIRSTEN DUNST To learn any foreign language first you need to fall in love with it SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST Love between two adults is always conditional. You can fall out of love because you are able to fall... BRYAN CRANSTON You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient. HARRIET EVANS You have to fall in love with yourself before anyone will fall in love with you. Define yourself by ... KATHLEEN MARVELLI Don't even look until you've closed on the old house. You could fall in love with a house and feel l... MARCIA WILLIAMS When you fall in love, you become weak. ZOLA JESUS If you want to be a graduate student, you have to fall in love with reading. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA don't fall in love with the body.
fall in love with the innocent , soul, as family ,heart and charac... DHARM BABU Why do you want to fall in love when love is inside you? DEBASISH MRIDHA When somebody on the outside fits with your inner image, you fall in love -- that is the meaning of ... OSHO Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall... JANICE MARKOWITZ Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall... JOHNNY DEPP Most people know intuitively that when you fall in love, the world is full of magic. What they don't... PHYLLIS CUROTT Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall... SINCLAIR LEWIS He was the kind of man everyone would fall in love with, even if they didn't want to. NICHOLAS SPARKS Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short! BETHANY HAMILTON You can fall in love but can't escape love alive. DEBASISH MRIDHA You have to promise that you won’t fall in love with me. NICHOLAS SPARKS One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls ... JUDITH VIORST One advantage of marriage it seems to me is that when you fall out of love with him or he falls out ... JUDITH VIORST I don’t think you ever really fall out of love with someone. I think when you fall in love,... J.A. REDMERSKI If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you. JANE BIRKIN You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast. CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with y... JUDITH VIORST How can you fall in love at first sight when you can't even see? MELINDA CROSS You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dream... DR. SEUSS To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease. NANCY MITFORD I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a wo... DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a wo... DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a wo... D. H. LAWRENCE Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more tha... TARRYN FISHER I didn’t fall in love with you… I flew. COLLEEN HOOVER Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. ... JAMES A. BALDWIN Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The ... JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN You have to promise you won't fall in love with me. NICHOLAS SPARKS Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is ... RAY BRADBURY Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word... RAY BRADBURY They told me it's a very dangerous subject, but when you fall in love something, you must be brave, ... ROBERTO BENIGNI Can you fall in love through a rifle scope? PETER HELLER If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again? If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again? SOURCE UNKNOWN Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she wou... NICHOLAS SPARKS I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a wom... D.H. LAWRENCE I was sure I fell in love with him again like the usual. He did things that made me go back to him. ... KIA AMAZONA You must fall in love with your job, over and over again, to own it. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love. HARUKI MURAKAMI The thing about fic is that is comes from love. Characters you love so much, that you feel so deeply... EMMA MILLS Once you get past the logistics and the shock, you actually fall in love with them. GINNIFER GOODWIN Boxing becomes easy work when you fall in love with your craft. HILARIO ANDRADE Why don't I just go against all reason, ignore past experiences and fall in love with you? AHMED MOSTAFA Why did someone fall in love with you because you are one thing and then want you to be something el... TATJANA SOLI To fall in love and to commit yourself to love means you should make your loved one the one thing yo... KOU YONEDA Are you still waiting for me to fall in love with you? MARISSA MEYER When you fall, I will be there to catch you - With love, the floor. ANONYMOUS Everyone says you only fall in love once but thats not true everytime i hear your voice i fall in lo... ROY CROFT If you are above the Sky,I will fly like an Eagle. DR. ARUN S SON So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with y... FELICITY KENDAL Love is infinite. There is no beginning and no end. There's no starting point and no finishing line.... MIA ASHER Q: How do you fall in love? You don't fall in love like you fall in a hole. You fall like... JEANETTE WINTERSON I didn’t mean to fall in love with you. But it happened. And I can’t erase it. I can’t ignore ... DAVID LEVITHAN If you are above the Sky,I will fly like an Eagle. DR. ARUN S SON Fall in love with hard work and it will unlock all the greatness in you SUNDAY ADELAJA if you fall in love with 2 people at once choose the second one because if you truly loved the first... JHONNY DEPP Never fall in love. Love is a poison. Once you fall in love, you lose control over your life --- you... PAULO COELHO If Romeo could fall in love with Juliet, than why can’t a vampire fall in love with a human? MARIANA CORRêA COSTA If Romeo could fall in love with Juliet, than why can’t a vampire fall in love with a human? MARIANA CORRêA COSTA I love you today. I will love you tomorrow. I will love you always. Because when we are reborn, I wi... FAYE HALL There is really no time to sleep
When you fall in love with music ! LUCAS WILD Cooking is like love. You don't have to be particularly beautiful or very glamorous, or even ver... LAURIE COLWIN When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do. RAINBOW ROWELL And I realized that some things just don't work that way. Life isn't a fairy tail. And the person yo... BETHANY BROOKBANK The only thing that will ever make me fall in love is: if I fall in love. C. JOYBELL C. Because you let our love just fall apart You no longer have my heart BOYZ II MEN A lot of people fall in love because you're sharing your body with someone. And sometimes you ge... JESSICA WHITE Who says you can't fall in love on your own?
Whenever you listen to music, close your eyes...
And th... MAICHEE SUMMER Who says you can't fall in love on your own?
Whenever you listen to music, close your eyes...
And th... MAICHEE SUMMER It’s easy to fall in love, Ben. The hard part comes when you want out. COLLEEN HOOVER Jamie: You have to promise you won't fall in love with me. Landon: That's not a problem. NICHOLAS SPARKS The Day you fall in Love with yourself, is the day you will find your Soul mate. RAINNA Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway. SAMMY HAGAR You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat. ROGER KAHN You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time... KIRSTEN DUNST I believe in love at first sight, and I feel sometimes you have to just be open to whatever love is ... LUKE KIRBY You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place. VANESSA HUDGENS Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought. OLIVIA WILDE You can't decide whom to fall in love with. It just happens. BIPASHA BASU The mark of a true crush Is that you fall in love first And grope for reasons afterward. SHANA ALEXANDER The mark of a true crush Is that you fall in love first And grope for reasons afterward. SHANA ALEXANDER Having dignity doesn't require you to fall out of love with someone. You can love someone your entir... SHANNON L. ALDER You're looking at me like you fell in love with me." "I didn't fall in love with you. I ... COLLEEN HOOVER
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UMBERTO ECO God is the Unique, and he is so perfect that he does not resemble any of the things that exist or an... UMBERTO ECO Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear. UMBERTO ECO There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preser... UMBERTO ECO I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate dif... UMBERTO ECO A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams. UMBERTO ECO I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by... UMBERTO ECO Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he w... UMBERTO ECO A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy... UMBERTO ECO Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that... UMBERTO ECO To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on you... UMBERTO ECO We live for books. UMBERTO ECO The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitt... UMBERTO ECO Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we... UMBERTO ECO Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my charac... UMBERTO ECO Poetry… it consumed Sappho’s young years, it nourished Goethe’s old age. Drug, the Greeks call... UMBERTO ECO La creatividad significa saber quiénes somos. Es jazz sin música, es un flujo de energía. Ser cre... UMBERTO ECO I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the man... UMBERTO ECO You live on the surface," Lia told me years later. "You sometimes seem profound, but it's only becau... UMBERTO ECO I should be at peace. I have understood. Don't some say that peace comes when you understand? I have... UMBERTO ECO I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but we d... UMBERTO ECO Any fact becomes important when it’s connected to another. The connection changes the perspective;... UMBERTO ECO Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame. UMBERTO ECO In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is... UMBERTO ECO I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it. UMBERTO ECO Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respira... UMBERTO ECO Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel un... UMBERTO ECO When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembe... UMBERTO ECO Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty part... UMBERTO ECO To survive, you must tell stories. UMBERTO ECO Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in ev... UMBERTO ECO There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I... UMBERTO ECO If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must b... UMBERTO ECO I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activit... UMBERTO ECO It's not the news that makes the newspaper, but the newspaper that makes the news. UMBERTO ECO When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick. UMBERTO ECO I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these ... UMBERTO ECO I love the smell of book ink in the morning. UMBERTO ECO How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man! UMBERTO ECO Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names. UMBERTO ECO We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay. UMBERTO ECO