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¶Love aims to close all distance. Death achieves the same end.
Yet whereas love celebrates the unique, the unrepeatable: death destroys them. ...
¶Love aims to close all distances. Yet if separation and space were annihilated
neither loved one nor lover would exist. Between space and love there is
the first opposition—that opposition which is contained as energy
within the original act of creation.

—John Berger [our faces my heart,
brief as photographs, p. 90]

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