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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Thornton Wilder

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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
Romance
Exists
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Love

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The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.
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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
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