#nearness

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth. ↗

— Charles Ives

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Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers. ↗

— Charles Alexander Eastman

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