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“Conway remarked with a smile: ‘I suppose you’re certain, then, that no human affection can outlast a five-year absence?’
“‘It can, undoubtedly,’ replied the Chinese, ‘but only as a fragrance whose melancholy we may enjoy.”
James Hilton, Lost Horizon