Midweek pick-me-up: Iris Murdoch on love
Decades into his long life, the poet Robert Graves defined love as “a recognition of another person’s integrity and truth in a way that... makes both of you light up when you recognize the quality in the other.”
Maria Popova • 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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Nicolas Truong • In Praise of Love
Love: can you love people as they are rather than idealizing them? Can you be devoted to their welfare? Can you make sacrifices for them? Do they exist as a subject to you, instead of an object?