“What's it to you if I love you?”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Philine in Bk. IV, Ch. 9
Variant translation: If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786–1830)

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