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We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Love often wears a mask in order to test loyalty.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.