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Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in read more
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each read more
Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over read more
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. read more
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
Love is the irresistable desire to be desired irresistably.
Love is the irresistable desire to be desired irresistably.
The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined read more
The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
