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“I've called it a quarrel, but it wasn't a quarrel, it was only the uncovering of the abyss that actually lay between us. Amorousness had been exhausted by the satisfaction of sensuality, and we were left facing each other in our actual relation to each other, that is, two egoists totally alien to each other, wishing to get as much pleasure as possible each from the other. I've called what happened between us a quarrel; but it was not a quarrel, it was only the uncovering of our actual relation to each other as a result of the cessation of sensuality. I didn't understand that this cold and hostile relation was our normal relation, did not understand it because this hostile relation of the first days was very soon concealed from us again by a newly arisen 'rectified' sensuality, that is, amorousness.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Find actuality in this way, with closed eyes (for in love, you indeed close your eyes to the weakness and the frailty and the imperfection), instead of failing to see actuality with open eyes (indeed, open and staring like those of a sleepwalker).”
― Kierkegaard Søren 1813-1855

“And death cannot deprive you of the neighbor, for if it takes one, then life immediatey gives you another in return. Death can deprive you of a friend, because in loving a friend you really hold together with the friend, but in loving the neighbor you hold together with God: therefore, death cannot deprive you of the neighbor. If, therefore, you have lost everything in romantic love and in friendship, if you have never possessed anything of that happiness: in loving the neighbor, you nonetheless retain what is best.”
― Kierkegaard Søren 1813-1855

“That which in all its abundance is essentially inexhaustible is also in its least work essentially indescribable precisely because essentially it is entirely present everywhere and is essentially incapable of description.”
― Kierkegaard Søren 1813-1855