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Quote #86557

I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.

Jonathan Safran

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The line unpacks the everyday phrase “I love you” into the extravagant, often unspoken claims that can hide inside it: exclusivity (“more than anyone”), uniqueness (“in a way no one else can”), and permanence (“never have… never will”). Its piling-on of clauses mimics the breathless intensity of infatuation and the anxious desire to secure love against time and rivals. At the same time, the overstatement exposes how declarations of love can be less a simple report of feeling than a bid for singular status—an attempt to make love absolute, incomparable, and irrevocable. The effect is both romantic and self-revealing, showing love as language that strains past ordinary limits.

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