What a sad story I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.
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
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why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths
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