There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you mi…

Guy de Maupassant
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress. ✨ Guy de Maupassant (2015). Maupassant Complete Short Stories: Works of Maupassant, p.981, 谷月社
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