"You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die."
"The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all."
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Source: Gabriel Marcel (1998). “Gabriel Marcel's Perspectives on The Broken World”
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