Gabriel Marcel

"There is one thing I have discovered since my parents’ death: what we call being a survivor is in reality to live not so much after as under; those we have never ceased to love with whatever is best in us become something like a living, invisible arch which we sense and even brush against, on the strength of which we are able to go on even as our powers diminish, wrenched from ourselves, toward the moment when everything will be caught up in love."

The Existential Background of Human Dignity
by Gabriel Marcel
Harvard University Press: Cambridge, 1963
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