“I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love…I sought what I might love, in love with loving.”
III, 1
Confessions (c. 397)
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Nondum amabam, et amare amabam...quaerebam quid amarem, amans amare.
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Quiero por lo que quise, y lo que quise, no volvería a quererlo.
Voces (1943)
To Lucasta: Going to the Wars, st. 3.
Lucasta (1649)
“Do you know what I really need?
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1970s
Source: Malcolm Muggeridge, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, A Gift For God: Prayers and Meditations, New York: Harper & Row, 1975. p. 61; Cited in: M. Dhavamony. "Mother Teresa's mission of love for the poor" in: Studia missionalia, Vol 39. (1990), p. 137
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