“What love doesn't teach you, you should not know.”

—  Waldemar Bonsels

Original: (de) Was dich die Liebe nicht lehrt, das sollst du nicht wissen.

Eros und die evangelien: aus den notizen eines Vagabunden (1921), p. 61

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