“Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else's heart.”
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Marlene Dietrich 28
German-American actress and singer 1901–1992Related quotes

True Love, featuring Lily Allen, written by Pink, Greg Kurstin and Lily Allen
Song lyrics, The Truth About Love (2012)

Variant: It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.
Source: Every Day

Variant: If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence
Source: No Death, No Fear
“My heart was rife with the joy of life,
For I loved you even then.”
Evolution (1895; 1909)
Context: When you were a tadpole and I was a fish
In the Paleozoic time,
And side by side on the ebbing tide
We sprawled through the ooze and slime,
Or skittered with many a caudal flip
Through the depths of the Cambrian fen,
My heart was rife with the joy of life,
For I loved you even then.