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And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood.

— Knut Hamsun Victoria (1898)

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Instead of founding an intellectual elite, America has established a mulatto studfarm.

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
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