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Elements Quote by Tanith Lee

“Oh, love. Love is best of all. There is no such total element, not even pain. Who has ever loved, knows this. I need not say more.” quote by Tanith Lee — Download Open image

“Oh, love. Love is best of all. There is no such total element, not even pain. Who has ever loved, knows this. I need not say more.”

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Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine is too complicated for all the elements to be able to enter into the analytical comparison we wish to make, we separate the more inconvenient [elements], we substitute others for them, less troublesome but also less…

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