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Showing posts with label philosophy to life. Show all posts
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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 was a distraction, and too much of it was regarded as weakness.