“Permanence was always an illusion, and love was just the disguise that lovers wore to hide the death of their union from each other for a while.”
Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)
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“Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.”

“Lovers never get tired of each other, because they are always talking about themselves.”
Ce qui fait que les amants et les maîtresses ne s'ennuient point d'être ensemble, c'est qu'ils parlent toujours d'eux-mêmes.
Variant translation: What makes lovers and their mistresses never weary of being together is that they are always talking about themselves.
Maxim 312.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822

"The Mower," Humberside (Hull Literary Club magazine) (Autumn 1979) [12 June 1979]
Source: Last and First Men (1930), Chapter VII: The Rise of the Second Men; Section 3, “The Zenith of the Second Men” (p. 112)

“Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.”
This Business of Living (1935-1950)