“Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it.”

for the lack of it.' Pt. 1, Ch. 3 - p.51
Source: Giovanni's Room (1956)

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