Letter From An Unknown Woman: "To you, who have never known me."

by Stefan Zweig

Nothing can equal the unnoticed love of a child. It is hopeless and subservient; it is patient and passionate; it is something which the covetous love of a grown woman, the love that is unconsciously exacting, can never be.

in reality I was as far from your mind as if I had been separated by mountains and valleys and rivers.