My life is sealed with a seal of love,
And locked with love for a key;
And I lie wrong and I wake long,
But you take no thought for me, my love,
But you take no thought for me.— Swinburne, unscottishised





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My life is sealed with a seal of love,
And locked with love for a key;
And I lie wrong and I wake long,
But you take no thought for me, my love,
But you take no thought for me.— Swinburne, unscottishised





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We are driven by the scrupulousness of our reason into an atrocious unscrupulousness of our hearts.
— Musil










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If love is to be judged by most of its results, it is more like hatred than friendship.
– La Rochefoucauld





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I wind about, and in and out,
With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling,And here and there a foamy flake
Upon me, as I travel
With many a silvery waterbreak
Above the golden gravel,And draw them all along, and flow
To join the brimming river
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.– Tennyson, The Brook



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