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Romantic love is painful.

Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.

Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

Personally, I find it romantic not to be with someone all the time; you don't get used to someone or take them for granted.

I'm a romantic at heart.

I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.