Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
- Mark Twain's Notebook
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
- Adam's Diary
Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes--none knows whence--and cannot explain itself.
- Eve's Diary
Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.
- "The Memorable Assassination"
The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1959 preface
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
- Notebook, 1898
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