"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."

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"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."

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"When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar."

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