“Great hearts are like great suns. They contain their own light and warmth. You have no need, therefore, of praise; you do not even need thanks; but I must tell you that I love you more every day,”— Victor Hugo, from a letter to Alexandre Dumas written c. March 1857
“I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.”— Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
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“Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.”— Alain de Botton, Essays in Love
“I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“To do? I don’t want to do anything. I want to be everything.”— Peter Ackroyd, The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
“- Darling—you have a full life ahead of you. - I have a full life behind me—all in those few sweet hours with you.”— Kurt Vonnegut, from “Mother Night,” originally published c. 1961
