All love stories are frustration stories… To fall in love is to be reminded of a frustration that you didn’t know you had (of one’s formative frustrations, and of one’s attempted self-cures for them); you wanted someone, you felt deprived of something, and then it seems to be there. And what is renewed in that experience is an intensity of frustration, and an intensity of satisfaction. Adam Phillips
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  1. I don't understand how can people hold faith and reasoning in the same head. To my understanding, faith, like love, is blind.
  2. It is very difficult to convince a person to come out of his conservative shell, unless he feels discomfort there.
  3. I don't understand why did jesus give life to the dead when they have to die again?
  4. I don't understand why did jesus give life to the dead when they had to die again?
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