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Anatole France

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Anatole France

Life

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When we go through changes, even those we really want, we feel sadness because we lose a part of who we were. To start a new phase in life, we have to let go of the old part of ourselves, almost like it has to end before something new can begin.

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