What are your favourite, honest quotes about love without sentimentality

love is the excuse girls get tricked into by apes to go fuckie fuckie and then live out nothing until me and them die

>>9629040
>honest quotes about love without sentimentality
impossible

>>9629049
Back to r9k

>>9629040
This is pretty accurate in my experience:

Let us say in passing, to be blind and to be loved, is in fact--on this earth where nothing is complete--one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. To have continually at your side a woman, a girl, a sister, a charming being, who is there because you need her, and because she cannot do without you, to know you are indispensable to someone necessary to you, to be able at all times to measure her affection by the degree of the presence that she gives you, and to say to yourself: She dedicates all her time to me, because I possess her whole love; to see the thought if not the face; to be sure of the fidelity of one being in a total eclipse of the world; to imagine the rustling of her dress as the rustling of wings; to hear her moving to and fro, going out, coming in, talking, singing, to think that you are the cause of those steps, those words, that song; to show your personal attraction at every moment; to feel even more powerful as your infirmity increases; to become in darkness, and by reason of darkness, the star around which this angel gravitates; few joys can equal that. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves--say rather, loved in spite of ourselves; the conviction the blind have. In their calamity, to be served is to be caressed. Are they deprived of anything? No. Light is not lost where love enters. And what a love! A love wholly founded in purity. There is no blindness where there is certainty.

love is the excuse girls gives apes to trick them into sticking around after fuckie fuckie

>>9629369
Back to your cellar, away from eyeshot, slave!

"A tacit agreement between two unhappy parties to overestimate each other, to praise each other shamelessly"

The most fundamental principle of all being

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>>9629451
>>9629049
dude...

>>9629040
C'est quoi, l'amour ?
Ne me blesses pas, chérie,
Ne me blesses pas.
Pas de plus.

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>>9629876

>>9629040
We learn to love by loving --Iris Murdoch

Very practical advice

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery,Wind Sand and Stars

Love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.— John Williams,Stoner

>>9631690
One more

We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love — a connection between things. This arcane bit of knowledge is respoken every day into the ears of readers of great books, and also appears to perpetually slip under a carpet, utterly forgotten.— Mary Ruefle