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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: "Because your mirth hurts me."
"Well, I will be sad."
"Marguerite, let me say to you something which you have no doubt
often heard, so often that the habit of hearing it has made you
believe it no longer, but which is none the less real, and which
I will never repeat."
"And that is . . . ?" she said, with the smile of a young mother
listening to some foolish notion of her child.
"It is this, that ever since I have seen you, I know not why, you
have taken a place in my life; that, if I drive the thought of
you out of my mind, it always comes back; that when I met you
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