“Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.”
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There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.