It is just that I don’t know how I could live without the hope of her. It would be like learning to live with wooden legs.
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Zum Autor"On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond of us, and disinclines us to those who are indifferent, and also a good grateful nature, the mere idea that a woman had a kindness towards him spun little threads of tenderness from out his heart towards hers."
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