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EQUALITY and INTELLIGENCE are synonymous, exactly like *reason* and *will*. The equality of intelligence is the common bond of humankind, the necessary and sufficient condition for a society of men to exist. I’ve thought a lot about you; I wish we could’ve hit the same notes, even though we both knew that we were playing the different instruments; I wish for a more creative, perfect harmony, but idk how. imy..

We hold in common the ability to feel pleasure and pain. But this resemblance is for each only a probability to be verified, and only by the long path of the dissimilar. Our counter-translation produces the poem’s emotion. All of her effort and work is to create an aura around each word and expression. As such, she analyzes, dissects, translates others’ expressions, and she tirelessly erases and corrects her own.

The verification of the “unity of feeling”(of the meaning of the painting) is the means of emancipation for the person who “doesn’t know how” to paint. “Me too, I’m a painter!” I have a soul. I have feelings to communicate to you. I feel and share the same bliss and pain.

The impossibility of our *saying* the truth, even when we *feel* it, makes us speak as poets, makes us tell the story of our mind’s adventures and verify that they are understood by other adventures, makes us communicate our feelings and see them shared by other feeling beings.