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la douleur exquise 

literally "the exquisite pain" - the particular agony of wanting someone who doesn't want you

origin: france
"ive witnessed that la douleur exquise is the most heart wrenching pain a person can experience."

la douleur exquise 

the exquisite pain of wanting someone that you know you can never have, and knowing that you will still try to be with them.
has drug like effects.
kate: so you'll sleep with him and then you'll hate him for sleeping with you and hate yourself for doing it?
lauren: yea. i'm psyched.

exquisite 

When something is wonderful, marvelous, great, amazing, and fantastic, exquisite sums up all of these words in one.
That pasta was exquisite mother.
exquisite by Lindsay December 5, 2004

la douleur exquise 

The pain of loving someone that you know you can never have; by circumstance or subjective decision.
la douleur exquise by hb March 30, 2004

exquisite corpse 

Freeform word game.

Among Surrealist techniques exploiting the mystique of accident was a kind of collective collage of words or images called the cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse). Based on an old parlor game, it was played by several people, each of whom would write a phrase on a sheet of paper, fold the paper to conceal part of it, and pass it on to the next player for his contribution.

The technique got its name from results obtained in initial playing, "Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau" (The exquisite corpse will drink the young wine). Other examples are: "The dormitory of friable little girls puts the odious box right" and "The Senegal oyster will eat the tricolor bread." These poetic fragments were felt to reveal what Nicolas Calas characterized as the "unconscious reality in the personality of the group" resulting from a process of what Ernst called "mental contagion."

--from ExquisiteCorpse.com
We were bored at the coffee shop, so we made an exquisite corpse.
exquisite corpse by Down10 June 18, 2004

Exquisite pain 

The pain of unrequited love - what you feel when you're infatuated, besotted, totally in love/lust with someone... and you are too scared to tell them, or they're not interested in you.
It's this exquisite pain that keeps me going back for more. I am so in love with him, but its impossible....
Exquisite pain by katta October 10, 2008