“Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.”
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author
Source: The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
“I long to talk with some old lover's ghost,
Who died before the god of love was born.”
Love's Deity, stanza 1
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François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Il est du véritable amour comme de l'apparition des esprits: tout le monde en parle, mais peu de gens en ont vu.
Variant translation: With true love it's like with the appearance of ghosts: everyone talks about it but few have seen it.
Maxim 76.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)