What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back as it is grief at not being able to want to do so. (Thomas Mann)

What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back as it is grief at not being able to want to do so.

Thomas Mann

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