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There are probably as many different dialects for the heart as for the tongue, are there not?
Elizabeth Barrett Browningverified·The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 1 (ed. Frederic G. Kenyon)·October 22, 1842
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Whatever moves me, whatever thrills me, is as a hand that touches me in the dark, and that touch is my reality.
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With the dropping of a little word from another's hand into mine, a slight flutter of the fingers, began the intelligence, the joy, the fullness of my life.
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What to the intellect is old and worn-out is perennially young and fresh to the heart; curiosity is insatiable, but love is never tired.
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Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.
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Only in love are unity and duality not at variance.
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The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.
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A mind might ponder its thought for ages and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.
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Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world.