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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

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Love needs to keep changing and moving to stay alive, just like fire needs to keep burning. If you remove the feelings of hope and fear from love, you remove what makes it real and full of life.

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