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“That we exist at all. That each of us has come into being as only one of untold possibilities. Anyone would think that this knowledge would equip us in some small way to face the improbable. But the opposite appears to be the case […] instead of moving around warily and tentatively, in constant amazement, we behave as if nothing has happened, take the strangeness of it all for granted.”

“They had an air of peace about them, Marie and Philip, which reminded me of the time, five years ago, when I first met Thomas. The sudden feeling of sharing something inex-plicable, a sense of wonder at the existence of the other-the one person who makes everything simple—a feeling of being calmed down and thrown into turmoil at one and the same time.”