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But miserable most, to love unloved?
This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1599, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

Plays Unpleasant

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Shaw, George Bernard. "The Philanderer." Plays Unpleasant. Penguin Classics, 2001, act 2. Originally published by Grant Richards, 1898.

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I can’t make you love me if you don’t.
You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t.

Bonnie Raitt

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I Can't Make You Love Me

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Reid, Mike and Allen Shamblin. "I Can't Make You Love Me." Performed by Bonnie Raitt. Luck of the Draw. Capitol Records, 1991.

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There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

Oscar Wilde

An Ideal Husband

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Wilde, Oscar. An Ideal Husband. 1895, Haymarket Theatre, London, England, UK, act 4.

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Wilde, Oscar. "An Ideal Husband." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 4.

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If equal affection cannot be
let the more loving one be me.

W.H. Auden

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Auden, W. H. "The More Loving One." Homage to Clio. ‎Faber and Faber/Random House, 1960.

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Never seek to tell thy love
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly.

I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart;
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears -
Ah, she doth depart.

William Blake

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Blake, William. Poem written in his notebook. c. 1792.

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Blake, William. "Never Pain to Tell Thy Love." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

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The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

Thornton Wilder

The Bridge on San Luis Rey

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Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.

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Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Vintage, 2023.

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A mighty pain to love it is,
And 'tis a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.

Abraham Cowley

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Cowley, Abraham. "Anacreontiques." Poems written by A. Cowley. London: Humphrey Moseley, 1656, no. 7.

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I was in love with a man who could never love me back. I was living in a fairytale.

Big Fish

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Big Fish. Directed by Tim Burton, Columbia Pictures/Jinks/Cohen Company/The Zanuck Company, 2003.

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I thought our relationship was perfectly clear. You are an escape. You're a break from our normal lives. You're a parenthesis.

Up in the Air

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Up in the Air. Directed by Jason Reitman, DreamWorks Pictures/The Montecito Picture Company/Cold Spring Pictures/Rickshaw Productions/Right of Way Films, 2009.

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The tragedy of love is indifference.

William Somerset Maugham

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Maugham. William Somerset. The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands. George H. Doran Company, 1921.

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