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“Romanticizing comes with colored glasses of the most colored sort.”

Perspective Romantic Point Of View Bias Distortion Romanticizing Skew Colored Glasses

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We romanticize people in our head so much to the point where they actually don’t exist.”

Love Romance Unrequited Love Loving Someone Hard Love Bad Love Romanticizing Misunderstanding Love

Author:Dominic Riccitello

“Brian's death was the clearest and most horrifying example of my terrific obsession with the unattainable. Alive, his biggest flaw was most likely that he liked me. Dead, his perfections were clearer.”

Death Romanticizing Unattainable Love

Book:The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

Source: The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“We have scholars galore, and kings and emperors, and statesmen and military leaders, and artists in profusion, and inventors, discoverers, explorers - but where are the great lovers? After a moment's reflection one is back to Abelard and Heloise, or Anthony and Cleopatra, or the story of the Taj Mahal. So much of it is fictive, expanded and glorified by the poverty-stricken lovers whose prayers are answered only by myth and legend.”

Love Romance Lovers Romanticizing

Author:Henry Miller

“The collapse of communism and a recognition of its economic and humanitarian catastrophes took the romance out of revolutionary violence and cast doubt on the wisdom of redistributing wealth at the point of a gun.”

History Violence Economic Revolution Communism Romanticizing

Book:The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Source: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

“The key, my darling, is romanticizing the little things. The steam of your coffee, the flicker of a flame, the rain dripping down the pane of the window. The moment you stop romanticizing your life is the moment you've already dugged your own grave.”

Life Poetry Romanticizing

Book:Ambrose

Source: Ambrose