"You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die."
"This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level."
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Source: Gabriel Marcel (1952). “Men against humanity”
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