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Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can__ feel grief unless you__e had love before it - grief is the final outcome of love, because it__ love lost. [_] It__ the cycle of love completed: to love, to lose, to feel grief, to leave, and then to love again. Grief is the awareness that you will have to be alone, and there is nothing beyond that because being alone is the ultimate final destiny of each individual living creature. That__ what death is, the great loneliness.
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
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Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can__ feel grief unless you__e had love before it - grief is the final outcome of love, because it__ love lost. [_] It__ the cycle of love completed: to love, to lose, to feel grief, to leave, and then to love again. Grief is the awareness that you will have to be alone, and there is nothing beyond that because being alone is the ultimate final destiny of each individual living creature. That__ what death is, the great loneliness.
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