George SantayanaLove make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
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When we are young, we feel the power of love in all of its strength. We fall in love with many people and we fall in love with the world. As we grow older, however, we begin to see that our love can be flawed and that it is not, after all, the end all be all of existence. It is in this realization that we should come to understand that love can make us philosophers. We should make ourselves aware of the ways in which our loved ones can hurt us and learn how to protect ourselves from harm by studying logic and reasoning our way out of bad situations.
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