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all attempts of emotional insulation to the loss (avoiding contact with her friends, not being in a vicinity of children, giving away the furniture and memorabilia) didn't help her win over the nostalgia of the music. It keeps coming back to her, bringing all the associated emotions to it. How she managed to outdo this traumatic remembrance and nostalgia, is at break of infidelity, that she no longer feels at core of her husband's work. The mistress and not her, their life together, or anything at all, could have been the 'muse' and inspiration. Music as you had noted, is its beauty (but I don't believe that copy lady's words came off as an epiphany in realizing it, after all Binoche's character is an artist, too) the way it percolates without boundary and reverberates around. The street flutist doing a tune reminiscent to her husband's, she questions where he got it from, he says 'it comes from everywhere' (non-verbatim).