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I accept you as you are. You are simply my friend. I will accept you simply out of love for you. If you are lame, I will not ask you to dance. If you do not love this or that, I will not invite them to your house with you. If you are hungry, I will feed you. I will not divide you into parts to get to know you better. You are not this action, nor that, nor the sum of these actions. I will not judge you by these words, nor by these actions. I will judge words and actions by you.
But you must accept me in the same way. I have nothing to do with a friend who does not know me and demands explanations. It is not in my power to convey myself to you with the help of a feeble wind of words. I am a mountain. A mountain can be contemplated by peering... How can I explain to you what was not heard by your love?

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "The Citadel"