| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 4845 |
| QUOTATION: | Too late have I loved you, o beauty so ancient and young; too late have I loved you! And behold you were inside of me, and I was outside of myself, and that was where I was looking for you. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Augustine Of Hippo (Aurelius August) (354430), North African philosopher, theologian. Confessions, bk. 10, ch. 27. |
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