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As You Like It  ·  1623

William Shakespeare

If thou remember’st not the slighest folly That ever love did make thee run into, Thou hast not lov’d

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

Love is recognised through the foolish things it has prompted someone to do. Remembering no such lapse becomes evidence that the feeling was never truly experienced. The challenge treats lost composure as part of love’s reality, rather than a regrettable exception to otherwise sensible behaviour.

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