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How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present?

You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more

Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Franco-Czech novelist born in Brno, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic).

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You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more.

How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present?

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Joyce Carol Oates Iris Murdoch E. M. Forster Marcel Proust Boris Pasternak

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