„… and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires“

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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„I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned. Was there no injustice in this? Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me?“
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
„I am amused at my relations with her: left so ardent in January – and now what? Also I like her presence and her beauty. Am I in love with her? But what is love? Her being 'in love' with me, excites and flatters; and interests. What is this 'love?“
— Virginia Woolf
„Hold to the idea, “I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act,” and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself.“
— Swami Vivekananda
„I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.“
— Pablo Neruda