We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects
as well as of their qualities.
~ Jacques Maritain.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we,
changing, continue to love a changed person.
~ W. Somerset Maugham.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
~ Thomas Moore.