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“All our desires are contradictory, like the desire for food. I want the person I love to love me. If he is, however, totally devoted to me he does not exist any longer and I cease to love him. And as long as he is not totally devoted to me he does not love me enough. Hunger and repletion.” (Simone Weil, 1977)
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Lucky
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For Simone de Beauvoir the game is torture: “The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet. This is the torture of impossible love …” (1953, 619).
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Lucky
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“The Greek word eros denotes ‘want,’ ‘lack,’ ‘desire for that which is missing.’ The lover wants what he does not have. It is by definition impossible for him to have what he wants if, as soon as it is had, it is no longer wanting”
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Lucky
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ἐρέω τε δηὖτε κοὐκ ἐρέω
καὶ μαίνομαι κοὐ μαίνομαι.
I’m in love! I’m not in love!
I’m crazy! I’m not crazy!”
- Sappho
— 7 hours, 26 min ago
καὶ μαίνομαι κοὐ μαίνομαι.
I’m in love! I’m not in love!
I’m crazy! I’m not crazy!”
- Sappho
Lucky
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“The shape of love and hate is perceptible, then, in a variety of sensational crises. Each crisis calls for decision and action, but decision is impossible and action a paradox when eros stirs the senses. Everyday life can become difficult; the poets speak of the consequences for behavior and judgment.”
— 7 hours, 27 min ago
Lucky
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“It was Sappho who first called eros “bittersweet.” No one who has been in love disputes her. What does the word mean?
Eros seemed to Sappho at once an experience of pleasure and pain. Here is contradiction and perhaps paradox.”
— Feb 12, 2026 06:47PM
Eros seemed to Sappho at once an experience of pleasure and pain. Here is contradiction and perhaps paradox.”
