But that is the thing about miracles: it is perception that determines them as such, not facts.
Camilla GibbRead
That idea is strange to me. People keep on loving? People keep on loving even if you are not there in their face everyday to remind them? People keep on loving even if they no longer see you at all? People keep on loving even if they are loving someone else? Impossible: to believe you can be loved in absence when you don't even know how it feels to be loved when you are there.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote expresses skepticism about the nature of love enduring in absence.
In this quote, Camilla Gibb reflects on the complexity of love, particularly how it can persist even without physical presence or constant reminders. The speaker questions the possibility of being loved while being absent, highlighting the challenge of understanding love when one has not experienced it firsthand in a tangible way.
Themes
LoveAbsenceRelationshipsEmotionConnection
In practice
Example use cases
During a speech about the power of love across distances.
More from Camilla Gibb
All quotes →Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric, giving you roots and a local identity. You are assimilated, and in erasing your differences and making you one of their own, the community can maintain belief in its wholeness and purity. After two or three generations, nobody remembers the story is fiction. It has become fact. And this is how history is made.
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