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In this way the lovers' highest expression for the enduring continuance of their love expresses that it merely has existence, because one tests, one puts to a test, that which merely has existence. "so Testing is always related to possibility; it is always possible that what is being tested would not stand the test. " Never has any greater security been found, and never will the peace of eternity be found in anything other than in this shall. "Sl When one shall, it is eternally decided; and when you will understand that you shall love, your love is eternally secured.

But the poet cannot understand this; that is, the single individual who is a poet may be able to understand it, but he cannot understand it insofar as he is a poet, since the poet cannot understand it. The poet can understand everything, in riddles, and wonderfully explain everything, in riddles, but he cannot understand himself or understand that he himself is a riddle. If he were compelled to understand this, he would, if he did not become indignant and embittered, sadly say: Would that this understanding had not been forced upon me-it disturbs what is most beautiful to me, disturbs my life, and in the meantime I have no use for it.

Or would we, since we do make a concession to celebrated love in comparison with commanded love, meagerly praise Christianity's levelheadedness and understanding of life because it more soberly and more firmly holds itself down to earth, perhaps in the same sense as the saying "Love me little, love me long"? Far from it. Christianity certainly knows far better than any poet what love is and what it means to love. For this very reason it also knows what perhaps escapes the poets, that the love they celebrate is secretly self-love, and that precisely by this its intoxicated expression-to love another person more than oneself24-can be explained.

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