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"When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed."

"When a dreamer loses his lover, his dream profits. (Unless, of course, the lover was the dreamer's dream.)"

"It's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle."

"If you haven't already, you will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and you never completely get over the loss of a deeply beloved person. But this is also good news. The person lives forever, in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up. And you come through, and you learn to dance with the banged-up heart."

"Fear no more as long as her memory surrounds you like a ghost, cry no more as long as she weeps for you like a willow."
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"Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event."
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