“What happens to people that love each other?'
'I suppose they have whatever they have and they are more fortunate than others. Then one of them gets the emptiness for ever.”

— Ernest Hemingway , book Across the River and into the Trees

Colonel Richard Cantwell and Renata in Ch. 38
Across the River and into the Trees (1950)

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American author and journalist 1899–1961

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