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I don't think that's there's anything like a soulmate, or the One, or whatever you want to call it. The idea that there is something like this is a ghastly fiction; ghastly because it implies, as StanT pointed out, that once you meet the One, things will just fall into place and be great from day one to the last day. Relationships just don't work like that; there are going to be some rough spots, and if you believe that you should be with your soulmate, you're that much more likely to think "Well, I thought she was the one, but I guess I was wrong", rather than trying to work it out. I think there's just a bunch of people who are all more or less compatible with each other.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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