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Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries Quotes: Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.
         

Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.


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