At that moment he knew what his mother was thinking, and that she loved him. But he knew, too, that to love… — Albert Camus
At that moment he knew what his mother was thinking, and that she loved him. But he knew, too, that to love someone means relatively little; or, rather, that love is never wrong enough to find the word befitting it.
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