From one of my favourite books, this is Kahlil Gibran writing on love and marriage in his opus, The Prophet.
“Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”
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