In the beginning is relation — as category of being, readiness, grasping form, mould for the soul; it is the a priori of relation, the inborn Thou.
Martin Buber. I and Thou. Translated by Ronald Gregor Smith. Scribner Classics, 2000 (1958). 39.
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