And I thought about how love is simply the solitary light between people, neither partitioned nor merged but shared, to light up the sliver of spacetime we have each been allotted before returning our borrowed stardust to the universe.

Maria Popova

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He who begins to be your friend because it pays will also cease because it pays. A man will be attracted by some reward offered in exchange for his friendship, if he be attracted by aught in friendship other than friendship itself.

Seneca

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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. And the most dangerous of all follies is to mistake the map for the territory.

Thomas Jefferson — Letter to John Garland Jefferson

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