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I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
>Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
>Augustine of Hippo
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become 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 the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love” which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.
George Carlin
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
>Pablo Neruda
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I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where
I love you simply, without problems or pride
I love you in this way because I don’t know any other way of loving
>Sappho
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Without warning
as a whirlwind
swoops on an oak
Love shakes my heart
>George St. Clair
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Many of these differences can be accounted for by the continuous operation of two processes, which may be called (1) the Choice of Mates ; and (2) the Law of Battle, of which the first bears some analogy to methodical selection in man, and the second to man’s unconscious selection : or perhaps it would be truer to say that both correspond to man’s unintentional selection. (More Strictly, both correspond to sexual selection in man. But sexual selection in man is partly methodical and partly unconscious.)
>Stephen G. Alter
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The interlinked origins of darwin’s unconscious selection concept and the application of sexual selection to race
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My thoughts are free to go anywhere, but it’s suprising how often they head in your direction.
Tnaveler Ton
Antonym of relevant are inappropriate, irrelevant and unsuitable.
>George Moore
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The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men said they have seen angels, but I have seen you and you are enough for me.
Rabindranath Tagore
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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>Darko Obradovic
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It’s all about similarity!
Compare A and B on attribute level with similarity function: $sim_i = sim($att_A_i, $att_B_i), similarity values are between 0 and 1 (0.0 is no similarity at all; 1.0 is equality)
The overall similarity between A and B is the mean value of their attribute’s similarities: $sim_A_B = ($sim_1 + … + $sim_n) / n
$sim_You_I = 1.0
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In life, there are moments when you miss someone so much that you feel like you could only fulfill your dreams by holding that person tight in your arms.
Rod McKuen
Love, at best, is giving what you need to get.
Ayala Malakh-Pines
Indeed it seems that people are attracted to partners to whom, in general ways, they are similar — in background, values, interests, and intelligence — but who complement us in a particular, significant personality dimension.
Marvin Rytting, Roger Ware, Patricia Hopkins
Similarity has been found to exert the major influence on the definition of the ideal mate.
Robert Krueger, Avshalom Caspi
Similar partners were found to be pleasurable and arousing, dissimilar partners repulsive.
Anthony Giddens
Romantic love became distinct from amour passion, although at the same time had residues of it. Amour passion was never a generic social force in the way in which romantic love has been from somewhere in the late eighteenth century up to relatively recent times. Together with other social changes, the spread of notions of romantic love was deeply involved with momentous transitions affecting marriage as well as other contexts of personal life. Romantic love presumes some degree of self-interrogation. How do I feel about the other? How does the other feel about me? Are our feelings ‘profound’ enough to support a long-term involvement? Unlike amour passion, which uproots erratically, romantic love detaches individuals from wider social circumstances in a different way. It provides for a long-term life trajectory, oriented to an anticipated yet malleable future; and it creates a ‘shared history’ that helps separate out the marital relationship from other aspects of family organisation and give it a special primacy.
From its earliest origins, romantic love raises the question of intimacy. It is incompatible with lust, and with earthy sexuality, not so much because the loved one is idealised – although this is part of the story – but because it presumes a psychic communication, a meeting of souls which is reparative in character. The other, by being who he or she is, answers a lack which the individual does not even necessarily recognise – until the love relation is initiated. And this lack is directly to do with self-identity: in some sense, the flawed individual is made whole.