Sublime

The measure of a society’s stage of moral sophistication is how infrequently it requires us to trade gratuities like love and poetry for food. By this standard, our own form of life has not advanced very far.

the new desire for intimacy “has its roots in alienation caused by social fragmentation under capitalism”: The erosion of wider networks of support has meant that people increasingly seek a stable source of care, emotional fulfillment and validation in their partner.

« Je… J’aime ce que je fais et j’aimerais continuer. On a vécu quelque chose d’incroyable, mais il faut se rendre à l’évidence... Mieux vaut se séparer. » Ma gorge était sèche, je n’aurais pas pu parler sans exploser. J’avais écarté les mains en signe d’impuissance. Si je l’avais déjà senti venir, l'entendre m'avait anéanti. L’attente m’avait

Romance fails because it is never supposed to work, past the act itself, the momentum of lust. She was raised by an expert. Binny was practically Roman in her operations: arriving in the village, taking the spoils, then razing everything to the ground. Through the walls of the post office cottage Rachel could sometimes hear the sound of male

we do not normally mistake progressions of weakness, the loss of the simple capacity to escape, for the onset of love.

“They don’t love us anymore.”

uma cultura de falta de amor, na qual todos perdem, e o amor não pode ser encontrado.