
God knows I never sought anything in you except yourself. I wanted simply you, nothing of yours.
Héloïse · From the first letter Héloïse wrote to Abelard from the convent of the Paraclete, some fifteen years after their secret marriage and his castration; Betty Radice's Penguin translation of the Latin "Nihil umquam, Deus scit, in te nisi te requisivi, te pure non tua concupiscens."
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