Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and
living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning.
You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You
are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it
happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes
near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all
around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many
as you could.
Louise Erdrich
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