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Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.

Muriel Spark

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Muriel Spark
Age: 88 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 1
Died: 2006
Died: April 13
Biographer
Editor
Literary Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Edinburgh
Scotland
Muriel Sarah Camberg
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark
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Intentions
Something
Senses
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Love
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Mysteriously
Poetry
Hovering

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