Diary of Anaïs Nin, December 16, 1930
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Diary of Anaïs Nin, December 16, 1930
Beneath the kiss itself, it is its meaning that interests us – which is why the desire to kiss someone can be decisively reduced (as it may need to be, for instance, when two lovers are already married to other people) by a declaration of that desire – a
from How To Think More About Sex (School of Life) by The School of Life
- “Fearlessness is what love seeks,” Hannah Arendt wrote in her superb early work on love and loss. “Such fearlessness exists only in the complete calm that can no longer be shaken by events expected of the future… Hence the only valid tense is the present, the Now.”
from Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All by Maria Popova
But his words can be quite usefully applied to love and the declaration of love, with the terrible difficulties and varieties of anguish they bring.
from In Praise of Love by Nicolas Truong
- "Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new."
(Ursula K. Le Guin)from Tweet by Vidhika Bansal
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The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
from In Praise of Love by Nicolas Truong
