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“Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.” quote by W. Somerset Maugham — Download Open image

“Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.”

W. Somerset Maugham

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