“I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.”

—  H. G. Wells

An Experiment in Autobiography http://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/wellshg-autobiography/wellshg-autobiography-00-h-dir/wellshg-autobiography-00-h.html (1934)

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