Fall in love Quote by Simon Mawer

“in Czech we have an expression, propadnout lásce, to fall in love. You can’t do that in German, can you? In German you just come into love. But in Czech you can fall into it.” quote by Simon Mawer — Download Open image

““in Czech we have an expression, propadnout lásce, to fall in love. You can’t do that in German, can you? In German you just come into love. But in Czech you can fall into it.””

Simon Mawer

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