"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, The Painted Drum
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