It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indiffere…

Alain de Botton
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It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear. ✨ Alain de Botton (2015). On Love: A Novel, p.119, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear. ✨ Alain de Botton (2015). On Love: A Novel, p.119, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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