“It [love] conquers nihilism and pessimism/Suicide and self-annihilation./ It conquers its own death. /It is the spark of fire that kindles life forever.”

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Life: Relish It! p. 127.
Love: Be it! (2001)

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