There are all sorts of things that love can’t conquer. Natural disasters, for example, and illness; cruel twists of fate; even simple human nature can very easily trump it every time. It wasn’t meant to provide immunity from fate or grief or pain. In fact, so often it’s the cause, isn’t it? But what it does is throw us into the midst of life with the best intentions possible; give us courage, passion, hope; make wonderful fools of us – always pushing us to be more than we would normally be. More than any other experience love carves away at us, like great lumps of marble sculpted into works of art. That, I think, is what they mean by ‘love conquers all’. It doesn’t transcend life. But it gives it integrity, a noble aim, no matter what the result.
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