“It is impossible to fall back in love with what one has stopped being in love with.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld, book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Il est impossible d'aimer une seconde fois ce qu'on a véritablement cessé d'aimer.
Maxim 286.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

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French author of maxims and memoirs 1613–1680

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