Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be bre…

Euripides
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Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them. ✨ Euripides (2013). Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus, p.202, University of Chicago Press
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Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them. ✨ Euripides (2013). Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus, p.202, University of Chicago Press

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