Diane Ackerman - Love Quotes

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When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion.

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People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets.

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Astronauts returning from orbit have marveled at how little of human life can be seen from space — not the wars or political boundaries, not the cities or farms, not the subtleties of custom, adolescence, or love.

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The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day.

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Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.

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As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist has a love disorder of one sort or another, and each has a story to tell - of love lost or denied, love twisted or betrayed, love perverted or shackled to violence. Broken attachments litter the office floors like pick-up sticks. People appear with frayed seams and spilling pockets.

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One of the keystones of romantic love — and also of the ecstatic religion practiced by mystics — is the powerful desire to become one with the beloved.

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Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite

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I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and deeply spiritual, glorifying the smallest life-form and embracing the most distant stars.

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When art separates this thick tangle of feelings, love bares its bones.

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Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.

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We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the word. After all, love requires the utmost vulnerability. We equip someone with freshly sharpened knives; strip naked; then invite him to stand close. What could be scarier?

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Habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.

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Like love, travel makes you innocent again.

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

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Ecstasy is what everyone craves — not love or sex, but a hot-blooded, soaring intensity, in which being alive is a joy and a thrill. That enravishment doesn't give meaning to life, and yet without it life seems meaningless.

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Love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.

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Hope and uncertainty [are] the twin ingredients necessary for romance to thrive.... Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope, or fails as often, as love.

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