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"All of her heart, a meaningless phrase, but correct and precise, too. She used her heart to love him, not her head, and not her words and not her thoughts or ideas or feelings or any other vehicle or object or device people use to deliver love or love-like things."
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Source: Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.124, Vintage
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