“Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy.”
George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin
“A life of short duration… could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.”
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