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Love has no age, no limit, and no death.
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“Love has no age, no limit, and no death.”

John Galsworthy

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Indian Summer of a Forsyte
Date
1918
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Irene answers an older man’s skepticism by insisting that love is not confined by age and does not simply vanish when a person or relationship passes away.

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Indian Summer of a Forsyte, represented in Project Gutenberg #2594. Irene says the line to old Jolyon while speaking about her dead lover; it is emotionally charged fictional dialogue, and the surrounding conversation immediately gives old Jolyon a more ironic response.

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