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1. "My bride is here, because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me?"
2. “You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own.”
3. "I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth... No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am: ever more absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. All my confidence is bestowed on him, all his confidence is devoted to me; we are precisely suited in character - perfect concord is the result.”
4. “I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.”
5. “He was the first to recognize me, and to love what he saw.”
6. “I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express."
7. “I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him."
8. “All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.”
9. “I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.”
10. “Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still.”
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