"When panting sighs the bosom fill, And hands by chance united thrill At once with one delicious pain The pulses and the nerves of twain; When eyes that erst could meet with ease, Do seek, yet, seeking, shyly shun Ecstatic conscious unison, The sure beginnings, say, be these Prelusive to the strain of love Which angels sing in heaven above?"

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Source : "Love and Reason". Poem by Arthur Hugh Clough, 1844.

Arthur Hugh Clough

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“I think for [Albert] Camus his mother was more than just that. She's love, absolute love. That's why it's written for her, dedicated to 'you who will never be able to read this book'.”

Source : Source: www.spikemagazine.com
“As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.”
“I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.”
“My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.”
“I give people If You Came Softly when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.”
“To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers.”

Source : Frances Trollope (2013). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.192, Courier Corporation
“Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations.”

Source : Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”
“At hotels, you are an actress. Absolutely. You can do what you want. Go where you want. I love my home too. But I love to arrive in a hotel. They have books, chocolate, food. I put things in the little refrigerator.”

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