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“Sometimes your words come back to me like a distant echo, like the sound of a bell wafted by the wind. And when I read passages about love in books, then I believe you are there with me.”

“And as she was throwing her arms about, her watch chain caught on a little gold sheep hanging on her charm bracelet.”

Where do I get a little gold sheep for my charm bracelet???

“And Frédéric loved her so much that he left.”

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“To distract himself from his disastrous passion, he took the first subject which came along, and decided to write a History of the Renaissance. On his table he piled up humanists, philosophers, and poets... Gradually the soothing nature of the work calmed him. And delving into the personalities of others he forgot his own, which is perhaps the only way to avoid suffering from it.”