Love Quotes by Margaret Atwood

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— Margaret Atwood

If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?

— Margaret Atwood

Why do men feel threatened by women?

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Love's never a fair trade.

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“But it's love that does us in.”

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Fear has a smell, as love does.

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Love is the pursuit of shadows ...

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“That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain.”

— Margaret Atwood

The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.

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“Young love, thinks Felix wistfully. So good for the complexion.”

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“Orpheus 2 He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed.”

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He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.

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Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.

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“One does not make love to a minor religious edifice.”

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God is not the voice in the whirlwind, God is the whirlwind.

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“If I thought this would never happen again I would die. But this is wrong, nobody dies from lack of sex. It's…

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“Love was merely a tool, smiles were another tool, they were both just tools for accomplishing certain ends. No magic, merely chemicals.”

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“Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely,…

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“I’d been reading modern French novels, and William Faulkner as well. I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession, with undertones…

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“Don't blame me, blame history, he says, smiling. Such things happen. Falling in love has been recorded, or at least those words…

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We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others…

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Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take…

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The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I…

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“They’d done it for love, because that was the effect love had on you. It snuck up on you, it grabbed hold…

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“Some will tell you Love is merely chemical, my friends, said Adam one. Of course it is chemical: where would any of…

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“The poems that used to entrance me in the days of Miss Violence now struck me as overdone and sickly. Alas, burthen,…

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“I can tell you're admiring my febrility. I know it's appealing, I practice at it; every woman loves an invalid. But be…

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“You should not be sad," he said, gazing at me with his melancholy, leathery walrus eyes. "It must be the love. But…

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I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a…

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“Love is not a profession genteel or otherwise sex is not dentistry the slick filling of aches and cavities you are not…

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“The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We…

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“ Variation on the Word Sleep I would like to watch you sleeping, which may not happen. I would like to watch…

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“were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire,…

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Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to…

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We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if…

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“An old walrus-faced waiter attended to me; he had the knack of pouring the coffee and the hot milk from two jugs,…

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“Am simțit cum dragostea merge înainte, fără mine. N-are nimic împotriva chestiei ăsteia, m-am gândit. N-are absolut nimic împotriva ei. Poate chiar…

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All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood…

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“That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one…

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“Men and women tried each other on, casually, like suits, rejecting whatever did not fit.”

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