Variant: and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
“When we first fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love
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