Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beaut…

Bernhard Schlink
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Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept? ✨ Bernhard Schlink (2011). The Reader, p.25, Hachette UK
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