There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

Nos amores deste mundo, desde Eva, há sempre um que ama e outro que se deixa amar

في الحب، هناك دائما من يحب وآخر يدع الأول يحبه

Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.

As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all.

I had seen the struggle to love and make one's self understood, the refusal of two persons in conversation to give themselves to each other, the coming together of two lovers, the lovers with an infectious smile, who are lovers in name only, who bury themselves in kisses, who press wound to wound to cure themselves, between whom there is really no attachment, and who, in spite of their ecstasy deriving light from shadow, are strangers as much as the sun and the moon are strangers.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.” –French proverb

Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

Each one of a pair of lovers fashions himself to meet the other's requirements — endeavors by a continual effort to resemble that idol of himself which he beholds in the other's heart.... Whoever really loves abandons all sincerity.

You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.

Who but lovers dream alike?

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each other by the features of their faces; they illuminate each other by the fierce preference which is akin to madness; they assert the reality of illusions; and for a moment they change falsehood into truth.

Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.