"The secret is to find someone who engages you deeply, to form a connection that goes further than desire and lust. It’s not enough to covet only a face or a body, true chemistry begins with the intellect and heart."
- Beau Taplin • T h e I n t e l l e c t (via afadthatlastsforever)
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"But oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it."
- Vita Sackville-West, from a letter to Virginia Woolf dated January 21, 1926 (via mercurieux)
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