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Paul Bourget on Mother's Day

1852–1935 France

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There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.

Cosmopolis (1892)

There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving — in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation — never ceases to love.

I have retired to Nemours to work upon a novel called The Age for Love, and it is on this subject that I wished to consult you, my dear master.

I have been thinking about our conversation and about your book, and I am afraid that I expressed myself badly yesterday. When I said that one may love and be loved at any age I ought to have added that sometimes this love comes too late. It comes when one no longer has the right to prove to the loved one how much she is loved, except by love's sacrifice.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Paul Bourget (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.