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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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The Art of Courtly Love The Art of Courtly Love by Andreas Capellanus
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