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"I would not for the whole world diminish you. I know it is usual in these circumstances to protest--"I love you for yourself alone"--"I love you essentially"--and as you imply, my dearest, to mean by "you essentially"--lips hands and eyes. But you must know--we do know--that it is not so--dearest, I love your soul and with that your poetry--the grammar and stopping and hurrying syntax of your quick thought--quite as much essentially you as Cleopatra's was essentially hers to delight Antony--more essentially, in that while all lips hands and eyes resemble each other somewhat (though yours are enchanting and also magnetic)--your thought clothed with your words is uniquely you, came with you, would vanish if you vanished--"