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In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first id not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.

“He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this knowledge: that in the long run all things, even the learning that let him know this, were futile and empty, and at last diminished into a nothingness they did not alter”