Fernando Pessoa: We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that w

We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept — Fernando Pessoa

We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that we love.

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