Eleanor Catton - Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons w

Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.

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Catton, Eleanor. The Luminaries. Victoria University Press, 2013.

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