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Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make

a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you
should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement; it is not eternal

passion. That is just being “in love”. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this
is both an art and a fortunate accident. Those that truly love, have roots that grow towards each other underground,

and when all the pretty blossom have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two.

A Love Letter by Victor Hugo

When two souls, which have sought each other for however long,
have finally found each other; are understood and correspond; in

fact, they are one; there arises a union, fiery and pure as they
themselves are; a union which begins on earth and continues

forever in heaven. This union is love, true love, a genuine love of

which few can conceive; love that is a religion, which deifies the
loved one, whose very life comes from devotion and passion, and

for which the greatest sacrifices are the sweetest delights.

Love is an Adventure by Pierre Tielhart de Chardin
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops like the universe itself only by perpetual discovery.
The only right love is that between couples whose passion leads them both, one through the other, to a higher

possession of their being. Put your faith in the spirit which dwells between the two of you. You have each offered

yourself to the other as a boundless field of understanding, of enrichment, of mutually increased sensibility. You
will meet above all by entering into and constantly sharing one another's thoughts, affections, and dreams. There

alone, as you know, in spirit, which is arrived through flesh, you will find no disappointments, no limits. There

alone the skies are ever open for your love; there alone lies the great road ahead.