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The Closest Book Meme

Apologies to the readers who expected a technical post, this is OT and just a response to Ryan.

I can't promise that I will love you forever, but I can promise that I will stay alive, so that I can call you, so that I can need you, so that I can commune with you, so that I can embrace you.

This is my translation of a quotation from the Czech edition of Louis Evely's Amour et Mariage (Lovers in Marriage is the English title). My translation doesn't match the level of the original (it's not technical English after all), but it's a great book worth reading, really.