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Robert Browning · A street song in "Fra Lippo Lippi" that the monk and painter hears from his window and climbs down to follow.
Robert Browning · A street song in "Fra Lippo Lippi" that the monk and painter hears from his window and climbs down to follow.
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Robert Browning · The opening of "Rabbi Ben Ezra," a long meditation on age spoken by a medieval rabbi; borrowed for every anniversary since, and by John Lennon for a song.
Robert Browning · The source reads: “I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett,—and this is no off-hand complimentary letter that I shall write... I do, as I say, love these books with all my heart—and I love you too.” · The first letter Browning ever sent Elizabeth Barrett, on 10 January 1845, before they had met; the familiar form splices the opening words to the sentence near the end, "I do, as I say, love these books with all my heart—and I love you too." They eloped twenty months later.
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W. Somerset Maugham · Philip Carey to Norah, who has just said she always knew he loved her less than she loved him.
Leo Tolstoy · The source reads: “To get rid of an enemy, one must love him, as it is also said in the "Teaching of the twelve apostles."” · A diary entry of 14 September 1896 at Yasnaya Polyana, citing the early Christian Teaching of the Twelve Apostles.
Vladimir Nabokov · The source reads: “I think it's all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.” · Answering a BBC interviewer at Zermatt in July 1962 who asked whether writing a memory down makes it fade.
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