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December 16, 2024

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Monday, December 16, 2024

Love is really... a recognition of another person’s integrity and truth.

Robert Graves

Poet, essayist, and novelist Robert Graves wrote often about love, which he saw as more than a sentiment, feeling, or burst of passion. Love in its true form, he suggested, is an understanding and appreciation of what makes a person wholly unique. To Graves, love was something given freely with no expectations. “Love is giving and giving and giving… not looking for any return,” he said in an interview in 1963. “Until you do that, you can’t love.”

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Fill in the blank: “We're each of us ___, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?” - Ursula K. Le Guin

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