“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”

—  William Shakespeare , book Romeo and Juliet

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Source: Romeo and Juliet

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William Shakespeare quote: “Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”
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English playwright and poet 1564–1616

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