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There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Born: 1792
Born: April 6
Poet
Wounds
Friends
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Self
Love
Dearest
Confess

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