Variant: Then she kissed him. Her kiss was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
Source: The History of Love (2005), P. 11
“He is of low understanding who spends a whole life irked by common worldly matters.”
Tsurezure-Gusa (Essays in Idleness)
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