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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: her:
"I want you to be happy and to have nothing to reproach me for,
that is all."
"And we are going to be separated!"
"Why, Marguerite, who can separate us?" I cried.
"You, who will not let me take you on your own level, but insist
on taking me on mine; you, who wish me to keep the luxury in the
midst of which I have lived, and so keep the moral distance which
separates us; you, who do not believe that my affection is
sufficiently disinterested to share with me what you have, though
we could live happily enough on it together, and would rather
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