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Physical attraction is definitely an element. I have to be completely physically attracted to somebody to want to be with them romantically in the least. But emotional attraction -- my desire to spend time with them, to be around them, to learn about them, to talk to them, to dress up a day-to-day outfit because there's a small chance I might get to see them -- that's what keeps me attracted to them after the initial physical attraction. Who knows what triggers emotional attraction for me, or anybody, but I would imagine it has a lot to do with one's individual life experiences.
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The word "time" split its husk; poured its riches over him; and from his lips fell like shells, like shavings from a plane, without his making them, hard, white, imperishable words, and flew to attach themselves to their places in an ode to Time; an immortal ode to Time.
—Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
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