"The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before."
"If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting."
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Source: Claudine and Annie. Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1903.
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