“Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”
Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
“We are used to thinking that what we give is the same as what we receive, but people who love, expecting to be loved in return, are wasting their time. Love is an act of faith, not an exchange.”
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by
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Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947Related quotes
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