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Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.

I have played so many romantic roles that I don't know if I am really a romantic in real life. I get confused about the real me.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.

Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.