I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?
Love is my religion - I could die for it.
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
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