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" That the heart cannot choose but love,' repeated Zinaida. 'That's where poetry's so fine; it tells us what is not, what's not only better than what is, but much more like the truth, "cannot choose but love," -- it might want not to, but it can't help it. "

Ivan Turgenev , First Love


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Ivan Turgenev quote : That the heart cannot choose but love,' repeated Zinaida. 'That's where poetry's so fine; it tells us what is not, what's not only better than what is, but much more like the truth,