So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade other people; nor is it like a scientist testing a theory. This is a unique art form within the world of rational science. We are trying to craft a "poem of reason" that explains fully and clearly and satisfies the pickiest demands of logic, while at the same time giving us goosebumps. Paul Lockhart
We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Edgar Allan Poe
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.
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Tom Robbins
Love is not the absence of logicbut logic examined and recalculatedheated and curved to fitinside the contours of the heart
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Tammara Webber
Love is illogical, love had consequences-- I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.
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Marie Lu
What does the brain matter compared with the heart?
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Virginia Woolf
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