"A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever."
"To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other."
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Source: Jessamyn West (1959). “Love is not what you think”
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