“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality”
Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor
“Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.”
— Dean Koontz, book Your Heart Belongs to Me
Source: Your Heart Belongs to Me
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