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We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection.
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It read more
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.
There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us.
We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, read more
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.
