Quote #2155 about Love by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite."by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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