Orts #886
Love is the quality of attention we pay to things.
— J. D. McClatchy (1945-2018)
The alternations between love and its denial constitute the most essential and ubiquitous structural feature of the human heart.
— Martha Nussbaum (1947- )
context for the two quotes above: https://bit.ly/2NR9YSo
...a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust.... once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.
-- Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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fun fact (via VT): Pierre, South Dakota (pronounced peer in this context) is the only state capital which shares no letter with its state.
another fun fact: forty is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order.