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Love Quotes by Mason Cooley

95 Love quotes by Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley writes love as a powerful obsession, calling the beloved the ultimate fetish. He notes that self‑love can fail, that politics can spark stronger passions than a lover, and that lovers often boast while lamenting. Young poets mourn love’s loss, old poets mourn time, yet both see little difference.

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I am no longer in love, but I still have my jealousy.

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Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.

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Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

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Narcissus weeps to find that his Image does not return his love.

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Lovers remain in the dark, working hard to keep out daylight.

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Simplicity is a strict taskmaster.

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The best propaganda omits rather than invents

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Hatred observes with more care than love does.

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Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.

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Only those in comfortable circumstances think love is the most important thing.

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An illicit love affair seems sweetly old-fashioned in the age of one night stands and orgies.

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Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.

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King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.

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Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons.

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The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

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Lovers never want to say "I love you" at the same moment. Hence all the love stories.

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To a suicide: You just poisoned the wrong person.

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In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.

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Saying "I love you" makes a demand, but creates no obligations.

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You know you're in love when you stop comparing.

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In love as in art, good technique helps.

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Family romances are the only ones that never turn out happily.

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The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.

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I keep renaming my motives, but continue doing the same things.

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Love Songs Now: Fewer broken hearts, more sexual misery.

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Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point.

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Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

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When my beloved arrives, I yawn. When my beloved departs, I weep.

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Lovers always believe one another's sleight-of-hand tricks.

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Politics inflame the passions in a way that few beloveds can match.

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The beloved is the ultimate fetish.

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Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.

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Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

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Love sorrows are addictive as other sorrows are not.

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Only the most lucid can see their love as comedy.

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Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.

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We make some changes. But mostly changes make us.

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I love you in my dreams, but not in real life.

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Even alone we go on justifying ourselves.

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Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

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Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

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Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.

Money comes to life as it is spent.

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.

Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

The body has a mind of its own.

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My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.

Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.

Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.