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historicwomendaily celebration week: favorite romance ≡ héloïse & abélard

even during the celebration of the mass, when our prayers should be purer, lewd visions of those pleasures take such a hold upon my unhappy soul that my thoughts are on their wantonness instead of on prayers. i should be groaning over the sins i have committed, but i can only sigh for what i have lost.