And it's important to note that people often regret their romantic relationships, too, but we don't take that as a reason people should stop pursuing love.

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Having grown up when photography was just being recognized as an art form, the French-born Cartier-Bresson was perhaps being an aesthetic contrarian, the anti-Stieglitz and un-Steichen, resisting the soft-focus tradition of those photographers that often conferred a romantic mist on their subjects.

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Love was all--crazy, boozy, goofy, usually dangerous, often destructive but always romantic, or so we were asked to believe.

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But as soon as I let go of these shallow desires, I met a man who makes me feel safe, puts me first, and often surprises me with romantic gestures.

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Listen to the extraordinary path they've found between strict early-instrument style (they play modern instruments) and the big, gushy romantic approach you often hear.

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When the antithesis is so often the continent's corrupt old commercial elites, romantic socialism has understandable appeal.

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Outside of park benches, socialising often happens over a bottle of local red wine in a romantic bar or in a boliche (nightclub).

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They often long for a sexuality anchored in the complicity and playfulness of their romantic relationship.

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