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In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

Without love, we're dead.

Without love, we are birds with broken wings.

He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic (1930-2013)

Things Fall Apart

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From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

Giacomo Casanova, Venetian adventurer and writer (1725–1798)

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The garlands fade, the vows are worn away; So dies her love, and so my hopes decay.

The worst was this: my love was my decay.

William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet (1564–1616)

Shakespeare's Sonnets

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Jean de La Bruyère, 17th-century French writer and philosopher (1645–1696)

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Without love, our lives are empty.

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

Faults become thick when love is thin.

Things started to fall apart at home.”

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

Mignon McLaughlin, American journalist (1913-1983)

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