“Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
“We burn daylight.”
— William Shakespeare, book Romeo and Juliet
Source: Romeo and Juliet
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English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
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