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Love does not brook resolution. Love cannot be fulfilled; man in love can only truly be in love if he has not gained his object—and vice versa: unattainability precludes the possibility of relief. Reciprocal love does not exist: two people cannot be in love with each other at the same time; mutual attraction is not love but affection.
— Jan 11, 2023 09:08PM
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Jim
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Art is "dangerous," at least in the modern age, when one of its main tasks is to smuggle solitude and the ultimate silence summoned by Hamlet's last words into the world of others. Great works disconcert one almost as much as does love: they abduct from one's everyday life only to confuse everything for one. They are promising and yet offer nothing.
— Jan 10, 2023 09:06PM
Jim
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Words say less than we would wish to convey—they mislead us, divert our thoughts away from their original goal to such an extent that even as we speak we ourselves are amazed: we wanted to say something else, not what the words, tones, and linguistic structures imply.
— Jan 09, 2023 09:26PM
