Monday, 17 May 2010
NEVER satisfied
'I'm never satisfied,'
'I think it's important for me to maintain a distinct sense of dissatisfaction with whatever I do, otherwise why would I ever need or want to do anything else?'
Friday, 14 May 2010
The Romantic Love
Love Love Love
to love a thing means wanting it to live.
CONFUCIUS
Romantic Love, by contrast, is an episodic, usually short- lived, and often scorchingly vivid turbulence in our emotional histories.
Anyone who claims to fall in love frequently is deemed irresponsible, and with some justification: for it is such a time- consuming, exhausting, ecstatic, painful, transforming business that it requires a long recovery- in some cases, indeed, whole lifetimes.
Romantic Love, by contrast, is an episodic, usually short- lived, and often scorchingly vivid turbulence in our emotional histories.
Anyone who claims to fall in love frequently is deemed irresponsible, and with some justification: for it is such a time- consuming, exhausting, ecstatic, painful, transforming business that it requires a long recovery- in some cases, indeed, whole lifetimes.
Romantic love was a distraction, and too much of it was regarded as weakness.
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