There is, of course, here and there on this terrestrial sphere a kind of sequel to love, . . .

"There is, of course, here and there on this terrestrial sphere a kind of sequel to love, in which that covetous longing of two persons for one another has yielded to a new desire and covetousness, to a common, higher thirst for a superior ideal standing above them: but who knows this love? Who has experienced it? Its right name is friendship."

. . . Nietzsche . . . The Joyful Wisdom . . . 32 . . .