“No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.”
Source: This Side of Paradise
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Creation happens to us, burns itself into us, recasts us in burning — we tremble and are faint, we submit. We take part in creation, meet the Creator, reach out to Him, helpers and companions. <!-- § 49
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