“To understand life, and love it to its depths in a living being, that is the being's task, and that his masterpiece”

—  Henri Barbusse

Light (1919), Ch. XXIII - Face To Face
Context: To understand life, and love it to its depths in a living being, that is the being's task, and that his masterpiece; and each of us can hardly occupy his time so greatly as with one other; we have only one true neighbor down here.

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