• To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

  Alphonse de Lamartine
  French poet, statesman and historian 1790-1869
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1. angelic
2. loved
3. human

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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. by : Alphonse de Lamartine

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