On Love

The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. |

– Elie Wiesel
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On Love

#901

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Iris Murdoch

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Most of us can manage no more than a narrow little obsession with a particular human who we mistakenly imagine can satisfy our gargantuan yearning for the real, primordial thing.

Rob Brezsny

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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