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Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by god that has something to do with suffering
-Zora Neale Hurston
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Perhaps Love Is A Compelling Necessity Imposed

Zora Neale Hurston
Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by god that has something to do with suffering
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And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive to welfare--is for the advantage of man? is not reason in error as regards advantage? does not man, perhaps, love something besides well-being? perhaps he is just as fond of suffering? perhaps suffering is just as great a benefit to him as well-being? man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact.
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Man depends on god for all things: god depends on man for one. without man's love god does not exist as god, only as creator, and love is the one thing no one, not even god himself, can command. it is a free gift or it is nothing. and it is most itself, most free, when it is offered in spite of suffering, of injustice, and of death . . . the justification of the injustice of the universe is not our blind acceptance of god's inexplicable will, nor our trust in god's love, his dark and incomprehensible love, for us, but our human love, notwithstanding anything, for him.
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