Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern w

Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it. – Jean De La Bruyere

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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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