Diane Ackerman - Love is the most important thing in our lives, a p

Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.

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Ackerman, Diane. A Natural History of Love. Random House, 1994, p. 4.

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