"I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give."
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When sex comes first, and especially if it remains primary, then the love that is based on it will be fickle and short-lived-as changeable as sexual interest is.
Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
Loving someone may involve more than goodwill toward them-wishing to benefit them or give to them, but it must involve at least that. If it doesn't, it isn't love at all.
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
We love even when our love is not requited.
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
When young children say they love their parents, they do not mean that they have any benevolent impulses toward them. On the contrary, they do need their parents for a variety of the goods they acquisitively desire and that they want their parents to get for them.
All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.
All love is sexual love. The mythology of love shows that this is an ancient and popular view of the matter. Think of the character of Venus and her son Cupid, and the arrows of Cupid... cupidity. Love is something to be feared, even dreaded or avoided, as the worst enemy of peace of mind and repose.
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