He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
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He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: 'What do I really need right now to be happy?' What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
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