But what is certain is that in five, ten or twenty years, this problem unique to our time, according to him, will no longer exist, it will be replaced by others... Yet this music, the sound of this rain on the windows, the great mournful creaking of the cedar tree in the garden outside, this moment, so tender, so strange in the middle of war, this will never change, not this, this is forever. Anonymous
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The quote “what is certain is that in five, ten or twenty years, this problem unique to our time, according to him, will no longer exist, it will be replaced by others” means that the fact that this problem occurs now shouldn’t prevent us from dealing with it. The trouble shouldn’t be avoided but dealt with. As for the quote “yet this music, the sound of this rain on the windows, the great mournful creaking of the cedar tree in the garden outside, this moment, so tender, so strange in the middle of war, this will never change, not this, this is forever” means that things can never go back to how they were before. Since things like this exist now they should be accepted and dealt with.

Source: Suite Francaise

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