“I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you - forever.”

—  Edgar Rice Burroughs, book Tarzan of the Apes

Source: Tarzan of the Apes

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