“By far the worst pain
Is not to understand
Why without love or hate
My heart's full of pain.”

— Paul Verlaine

C'est bien la pire peine
De ne savoir pourquoi
Sans amour et sans haine
Mon cœur a tant de peine!
"Il pleur dans mon cœur" line 13, from Romances sans paroles (1874); Sorrell p. 71

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C'est bien la pire peine De ne savoir pourquoi Sans amour et sans haine Mon cœur a tant de peine!

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French poet 1844–1896

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