“Why should you love him whom the world hates so?
Because he love me more than all the world.”

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Si on me presse de dire pourquoi je l'aimais, je sens que cela ne se peut exprimer qu'en répondant: parce que c'était lui; parce que c'était moi.
Variants: If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
Book I, Ch. 28
Essais (1595), Book I
Source: The Complete Essays

Source: The Dark Tower

Source: Diary

Source: The Eye of the World

#14550, Part 15
Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)

"The Best of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the Clown Prince of Russian Politics" in VICE https://www.vice.com/en/article/xd5q47/the-best-of-vladimir-zhirinovsky-russias-craziest-politician

Essay in the anthology The War Poets (1945) edited by Oscar Williams

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95 poems (1958)