on being swift to love

Happy Thanksgiving, dear Friends!
I hope you can spend it with those who love you truly and profoundly.

Still, it seems to me that love — true and profound love — should be a source of light and calm, a religion and a revelation, in which there is no place left for the lower victories of vanity. Great souls care only for what is great, and to the spirit which hovers in the sight of the Infinite, any sort of artifice seems a disgraceful puerility.

-Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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