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An idealism previously directed at gods and spirits has been rerouted towards human subjects – an ostensibly generous gesture nevertheless freighted with forbidding and brittle consequences,
He will need to learn that love is a skill rather than an enthusiasm.
What we typically call love is only the start of love.
cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards.
Love means admiration for qualities in the lover that promise to correct our weaknesses and imbalances; love is a search for completion.
Beneath many erotic triggers lie symbolic solutions to some of our greatest fears, and poignant allusions to our yearnings for friendship and understanding.
