Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyFor the first time she knew and loved the Spirit of good and beauty, an affinity to which affords the greatest bliss that our nature can receive.
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In a letter to a friend, Charles Dickens wrote that he had found a new sense of happiness. He said that he had experienced a new feeling since he met his future wife, Ellen Ternan. Dickens said that he had never felt so happy in his life and that he would never have been able to write the way he did without her. In addition to providing an example of what it means to fall in love, this quote also speaks to all of the ways in which we can be changed by love.
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