Literally it translates as in life if people could act as if meeting for the first time. This is the first sentence of a poem lamenting how the passion and love is gone and left with loneliness. The quoted sentence is saying if only people could always behave as if meeting for the first time, polite, not being too close yet pleasantly surprised, then life would not come with so much tragedy and sorrow.
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Literally it translates as in life if people could act as if meeting for the first time. This is the first sentence of a poem lamenting how the passion and love is gone and left with loneliness. The quoted sentence is saying if only people could always behave as if meeting for the first time, polite, not being too close yet pleasantly surprised, then life would not come with so much tragedy and sorrow.