chirysalis’s Reviews > Essays In Love > Status Update

but this is interesting enough

"We would not love if there were no lack within us, but we are offended by the discovery of a similar lack in the other."

"Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bitter-sweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt to take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself."

"Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. [...] We locate inside another a perfection that eludes us within ourselves, and through our union with the beloved, hope to maintain (against the evidence of all self-knowledge) a precarious faith in our species."

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