I said it grieved me to part from anything that mattered to me, yet I welcomed the grief because it meant I had felt deeply and needed to express it. ‘I even had trouble leaving the Parthenon,’ I told him … ‘because it was so beautiful and I knew I’d never see it again.

I said it grieved me to part from anything that mattered to me, yet I welcomed the grief because it meant I had felt deeply and needed to express it. ‘I even had trouble leaving the Parthenon,’ I told him … ‘because it was so beautiful and I knew I’d never see it again.

– Jeanne Safer –

The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found

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