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“Had they nothing else to say to one another? Yet their eyes were full of more serious speech, and while they forced themselves to find trivial phrases, they felt the same languor stealing over them both. It was the whisper of the soul, deep, continuous, dominating that of their voices. Surprised with wonder at this strange sweetness, they did not think of speaking of the sensation or of seeking its cause. Coming joys, like tropical shores, throw over the immensity before them their inborn softness, an odorous wind, and we are lulled by this intoxication without a thought of the horizon that we did not even know.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.”
― Khalil Gibran

“in his view love ended only when it was possible to return to oneself without fear or disgust,”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child