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> [To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-lover/to-return-after-long-years-of-painful-absence-to-some-place-which-has/)

[Samuel Lover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-lover/)

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> [“There was a mystery about it. You were given a sharp, acute, uncomfortable grain—the actual meeting; horribly painful as often not; yet in absence, in the most unlikely places, it would flower out, open, shed its scent, let you touch,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/there-was-a-mystery-about-it-you-were-given-a-sharp-acute/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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