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"No, but still it is very unpleasant to live with such unimpressible, incomprehensible creatures. You cannot love them; and if you could, your love would be utterly thrown away: they could neither return it, nor value, nor understand it."
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"What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed."
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