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QuoteMemorizeAges 14–15 · The Moral Imagination
Late have I loved thee, O Beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved thee! Behold, thou wert within, and I was without, and there did I seek thee.
St. Augustine, 400
Confessions, Book X

Augustine's lament for the years he spent looking for God in the wrong places.

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