“Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not.”

—  Paulo Coelho , book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 164.
Context: Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or — such is the pleasure they experience — they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.

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Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

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