The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.[Also known as:]To love another person is to see the face of God.[La réduction de l’univers à un seul être, la dilatation d’un seul être jusqu’à Dieu, voilà l’amour.]

Source:(The Modern Library, ed. 1862), Volume IV. Saint Denis and Idyl of the Rue Plumet, Book V. The End of Which is Unlike the Beginning, Chapter IV. A Heart Under a Stone, Page 784
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