"The termites of reduction have always gnawed away at life: even the greatest love ends up as a skeleton of feeble memories."

Love, Memory, Loss, Decay

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"The termites of reduction have always gnawed away at life: even the greatest love ends up as a skeleton of feeble memories."

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