“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
“I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,
if there were not a friend?
The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which prevents the conversation of the two from sinking into the depth.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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