What It's All About, Really
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My friend Susan posted this quote from "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" as a comment on yesterday's post, but I think it's worth repeating here. Susan, thank you for this beautiful passage. [Spoiler Alert: Contains a reference to the ending of the novel. The quote comes from the end of the novel when someone is thinking of the five who died when the bridge collapsed.]
"But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."
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My friend Susan posted this quote from "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" as a comment on yesterday's post, but I think it's worth repeating here. Susan, thank you for this beautiful passage. [Spoiler Alert: Contains a reference to the ending of the novel. The quote comes from the end of the novel when someone is thinking of the five who died when the bridge collapsed.]
"But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."
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