“A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.”
Thomas à Kempis book The Imitation of Christ
Source: The Imitation of Christ
“However dead a past love may be, new lovers are much…upset by them.”
Los amores pasados siempre ofenden a los amantes nuevos, por muy muertos que estén aquéllos.
Source: Todas las Almas [All Souls] (1989), p. 93
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