“Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.”
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Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.