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Friendship, gratitude, affection, love, passion, interest, hatred, curiosity, desire for revenge, indolence, the law of difficulty, indifference connect people to people. Or: these are lovers, these are friends, these are bored with each other, these still respect each other. But in addition to these possibilities, there are countless other relationships between men and women that bind them inextricably, and cannot be called by name, there is no reason why they are together, even though, visibly and according to all signs, they would move away from each other, hands and feet, if I could do it. There is also some kind of ultraviolet scale of contact between people, there are human conditions for which the poverty and dullness of language has not yet given a name. The relationship between a man and a woman is usually described as love. But there is more between a man and a woman than love and friendship.

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Friendship, gratitude, affection, love, passion, interest, hatred, curiosity, desire for revenge, indolence, the law of difficulty, indifference connect people to people. Or: these are lovers, these are friends, these are bored with each other, these still respect each other. But in addition to these possibilities, there are countless other relationships between men and women that bind them inextricably, and cannot be called by name, there is no reason why they are together, even though, visibly and according to all signs, they would move away from each other, hands and feet, if I could do it. There is also some kind of ultraviolet scale of contact between people, there are human conditions for which the poverty and dullness of language has not yet given a name. The relationship between a man and a woman is usually described as love. But there is more between a man and a woman than love and friendship.

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Hungarian

"Embert emberhez kapcsol barátság, hála, szeretet, szerelem, szenvedély, érdek, gyűlölet, kíváncsiság, bosszúvágy, tunyaság, a nehézkedés törvénye, közöny. Vagy: ezek szerelmesek, ezek barátok, ezek unják egymást, ezek még tisztelik egymást. De akad e lehetőségeken kívül számtalan olyan kapcsolat még férfi és nő között, melyek menthetetlenül összekötik őket, s nem lehet névvel nevezni, nincs oka, miért vannak hát együtt, holott, szemmel láthatóan és minden jel szerint, kézzel-lábbal rugaszkodnának el egymástól, ha tehetnék. Van valamilyen ultraviolett-skálája is az emberek között az érintkezésnek, vannak emberi állapotok, melyeknek a nyelv szegénysége, tunyasága nem adott még elnevezést. Férfi és nő viszonyát általában leöntjük azzal a generálszóval, hogy szerelem. De van más is férfi és nő között, mint szerelem és barátság."

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