Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And… — St. Augustine
Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself and there I searched for you.
In the original Latin
Sero te amavi, pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova, sero te amavi! et ecce intus eras et ego foris, et ibi te quaerebam.
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Augustine of Hippo. Confessions, translated by R. S. Pine-Coffin. Penguin Classics, 1961, bk. 10, ch. 27.
Original citation
Augustine of Hippo. Confessiones [Confessions]. c. 398, bk. 10, ch. 27.
