• Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  4.4 · 59 votes · 136 reads

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• Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  3.7 · 17 votes · 110 reads

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• Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

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  Marcus Aurelius

  RoyaltyRoman121 · 2nd century

  4.3 · 6 votes · 102 reads

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• Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.1 · 61 votes · 162 reads

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• All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  4.8 · 44 votes · 150 reads

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• All mankind loves a lover.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.8 · 38 votes · 155 reads

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• All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.5 · 8 votes · 64 reads

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• All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

  WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

  3.0 · 61 votes · 183 reads

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• An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  3.8 · 47 votes · 103 reads

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• As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  3.9 · 28 votes · 94 reads

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• As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty sourc

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 48 votes · 196 reads

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• At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 12 votes · 13 reads

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• At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.0 · 37 votes · 116 reads

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• At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  5.0 · 29 votes · 163 reads

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• At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.4 · 23 votes · 41 reads

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• At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  3.4 · 56 votes · 191 reads

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• Be that self which one truly is. - Kierkegaard, Soren

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  3.7 · 12 votes · 136 reads

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• Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.7 · 53 votes · 47 reads

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• Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  3.5 · 27 votes · 144 reads

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• Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  4.9 · 23 votes · 9 reads

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• Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

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  John Donne

  PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century

  4.9 · 64 votes · 200 reads

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• But love is blind, and lovers cannot see what petty follies they themselves commit.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.3 · 22 votes · 122 reads

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• But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.9 · 63 votes · 181 reads

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• But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 5 votes · 6 reads

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• Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  3.4 · 61 votes · 121 reads

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• Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  3.1 · 62 votes · 155 reads

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• Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.0 · 17 votes · 199 reads

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• Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

  

  Teresa of Calcutta

  MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

  3.2 · 40 votes · 118 reads

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• Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

  

  Francoise Sagan

  WriterFrench1935 · 20th century

  4.6 · 26 votes · 7 reads

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• Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

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  Iris Murdoch

  NovelistBritish1919 · 20th century

  3.3 · 44 votes · 6 reads

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• Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

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  Diane Ackerman

  WriterAmerican1948 · 20th century

  4.3 · 57 votes · 5 reads

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• Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  4.5 · 6 votes · 131 reads

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• Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

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  Iris Murdoch

  NovelistBritish1919 · 20th century

  3.6 · 11 votes · 47 reads

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• Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

  

  Andy Warhol

  PainterAmerican1928 · 20th century

  3.4 · 28 votes · 147 reads

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• First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.2 · 52 votes · 111 reads

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• Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  3.6 · 20 votes · 82 reads

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• Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 15 votes · 72 reads

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• For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.0 · 47 votes · 126 reads

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• For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.6 · 5 votes · 92 reads

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• For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  3.9 · 58 votes · 12 reads

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• For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.2 · 50 votes · 24 reads

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• Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  4.8 · 49 votes · 89 reads

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• Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

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  John Newton Mitchell

  PoliticianAmerican1913 · 20th century

  3.0 · 61 votes · 126 reads

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• God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  4.0 · 33 votes · 179 reads

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• God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  4.6 · 34 votes · 60 reads

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• He is not a lover who does not love forever.

  

  Euripides

  PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC

  3.7 · 7 votes · 16 reads

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• He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.5 · 30 votes · 89 reads

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• He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

  

  English proverb

  English

  4.0 · 25 votes · 41 reads

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• He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.2 · 60 votes · 87 reads

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• He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.0 · 39 votes · 86 reads

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• He who is not impatient is not in love.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  4.9 · 64 votes · 78 reads

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• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

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  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  PoetBritish1806 · 19th century

  4.9 · 25 votes · 30 reads

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• I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

  

  Emily Dickinson

  PoetAmerican1830 · 19th century

  4.5 · 63 votes · 55 reads

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• I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 20 votes · 105 reads

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• I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  3.0 · 24 votes · 141 reads

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• I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious. - Whitman, Walt

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.6 · 10 votes · 122 reads

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• I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  3.0 · 22 votes · 114 reads

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• I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

  

  Teresa of Calcutta

  MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

  3.3 · 17 votes · 172 reads

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• I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  3.7 · 41 votes · 59 reads

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• I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that yo

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.8 · 54 votes · 86 reads

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• I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.7 · 9 votes · 9 reads

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• I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes - and the stars through his soul.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.8 · 62 votes · 26 reads

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• I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.6 · 10 votes · 21 reads

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• I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

  

  Mae West

  ComedianAmerican1893 · 19th century

  3.7 · 21 votes · 27 reads

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• I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  4.4 · 14 votes · 97 reads

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• I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a li

  

  George Sand

  WriterFrench1804 · 19th century

  5.0 · 29 votes · 36 reads

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• I shall always be a priest of love.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  4.0 · 35 votes · 123 reads

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• I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

  

  Teresa of Calcutta

  MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

  4.6 · 62 votes · 194 reads

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• I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

  

  Woodrow T. Wilson

  PoliticianAmerican1856 · 19th century

  4.0 · 37 votes · 53 reads

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• I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

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  Robert Frost

  PoetAmerican1874 · 19th century

  4.9 · 53 votes · 190 reads

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• I'm very good at having time off. I tend to take whole years off - I had 1994 and 1997 off. I find it very easy; I just love pottering around doing normal things.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  4.4 · 39 votes · 157 reads

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• If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  3.0 · 50 votes · 37 reads

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• If I love you, what business is it of yours?

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.5 · 55 votes · 153 reads

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• If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

  

  André Breton

  WriterFrench1896 · 19th century

  5.0 · 33 votes · 95 reads

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• If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 55 votes · 31 reads

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• If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 6 votes · 123 reads

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• If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

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  Katherine Mansfield

  WriterEnglish1888 · 19th century

  4.6 · 12 votes · 40 reads

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• If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 47 votes · 52 reads

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• If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.7 · 21 votes · 83 reads

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• If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 41 votes · 139 reads

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