Carl Jung on creativity, Simone de Beauvoir on love and friendship, and a burst of joy
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Carl Jung on creativity, Simone de Beauvoir on love and friendship, and a burst of joy
What Love Really Means: Iris Murdoch on Unselfing, the Symmetry Between Art and Morality, and How We Unblind Ourselves to Each Other’s Realities
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I knew only one thing—which I have learned well by now: Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
Viktor E Frankl • Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
It seems to me that love should not make all else disappear but should simply tint it with new nuances; I would like a love that accompanies me through life, not that absorbs all my life.