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I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!⁠—and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning on life and death

How Do I Love Thee? (1850), Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), No. XLIII

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