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H. L. Mencken - To be in love is merely to be in a...
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess. (H. L. Mencken)

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

H. L. Mencken

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