“For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.”

—  Alan Lightman, book Einstein's Dreams

Source: Einstein's Dreams

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Physicist, science writer, essayist, novelist 1948

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