“Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes:
But the name of the secret is Love!”

—  Lewis Carroll, book Sylvie and Bruno

Source: Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893), Chapter 19: A Fairy Duet

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English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832–1898

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