Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. (Thornton Wilder)

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.

Thornton Wilder

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