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Topic·Fading love✕clear

Personal journal

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

Mark Twain

1894

★ 3.9

Play · Comedy (play)

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more content.

William Shakespeare

The Merry Wives of Windsor · 1602

★ 3.8

Novel · Magazine

There is always something ridiculous about the passions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1890

★ 3.8

Play · History (play) · Tragedy (play)

When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforcèd ceremony.

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 3.7

Poem

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

John Donne

1631

★ 3.7

Novel

Emma was like all his other mistresses; and as the charm of novelty gradually slipped from her like a piece of her clothing, he saw revealed in all its nakedness the eternal monotony of passion, which always assumes the same forms and always speaks the same language.

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary · 1856

★ 3.7

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Marcel Proust

1896

★ 3.7

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Science fiction (film) · Romantic drama · Science fiction

Are we like those bored couples you feel sorry for in restaurants? Are we the dining dead?

Joel Barish

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · 2004

★ 3.7

Autobiography and memoir

Marriage is a sacrament which I detest... Because it is the tomb of love.

Giacomo Casanova

1838

★ 3.6

Play · Comedy (play)

Now my love is thawed, Which like a waxen image ’gainst a fire Bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

The Two Gentlemen of Verona · 1616

★ 2.9

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