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"I tried to imagine him capital-S Somewhere as we prayed, but even then I could not quite convince myself that he and I would be together again. I already knew too many dead people. I knew that time would now pass for me differently then it would for him- that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter."

"Our world ends and some people never understand how much we really loved them."

"I straightened up and looked out the plane window at the dark clouds hanging over the North Sea, thinking of what I had lost in the course of my life: times gone forever, friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again."

"One thing became crystal clear to me when I couldn't see you anymore. I realized that the only way I had been able to survive until then was having you in my life. When I lost you, the pain and loneliness really got to me."
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"It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men."

"Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought."

"Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war."
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