Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it. (Michael Ondaatje)

Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it.

Michael Ondaatje

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