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.
