"I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry."
-John Donne
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"He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.“
-John Donne
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