We know the feeling by so many names and yet, describing it is next to impossible. Only a few literary geniuses can really manage to give form to feelings which often leave us tongue-tied. Some compare it to the stars, some to the ocean, and for some it is about growing old together. However, it is in their writing that you discover how the concept of love has changed through the centuries.

Here are quotes from authors from different ages which capture love from everything worth dying for to a dirty little secret:

And that is how love went from being worth dying for to a dirty little secret.

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