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In the end, even the __es_ to love is a source of suffering, because love always requires expropriations of my ___, in which I allow myself to be pruned and wounded. Love simply cannot exist without this painful renunciation of myself, for otherwise it becomes pure selfishness and thereby ceases to be love.
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In the end, even the __es_ to love is a source of suffering, because love always requires expropriations of my ___, in which I allow myself to be pruned and wounded. Love simply cannot exist without this painful renunciation of myself, for otherwise it becomes pure selfishness and thereby ceases to be love.

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