[T]he departing world leaves behind… not an heir, but a pregnant widow. – Alexander Ivanovich Herzen, Other Shore
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They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
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