"Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship."

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For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth

— Miguel de Unamuno