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“For true love joins the hearts of two persons with so great a feeling of delight that they cannot desire to embrace anybody else; on the contrary they take care to avoid the solaces of everybody else as though they were horrible things, and they keep themselves for each other.”
Andreas Capellanus
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“Love is a certain inborn suffering derived from the sight of and excessive meditation upon the beauty of the opposite sex, which causes each one to wish above all things the embraces of the other and by common desire to carry out all of love's precepts in the other's embrace.”
Andreas Capellanus, The Art of Courtly Love
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“No one should be deprived of love without the very best of reasons. ”
Andreas Capellanus, The Art of Courtly Love
“Love is a certain inborn suffering.”
Andreas Capellanus

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