"Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.“

-Joseph Roux

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"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."

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