In Praise of Love

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.

It is the project, naturally including sexual desire in all its facets, including the birth of a child, but also a thousand other things, in fact, anything from the moment our lives are challenged by the perspective of difference.

We know how people get carried away by love stories! A philosopher must ask why that happens. Why are there so many films, novels, and songs that are entirely given over to love stories? There must be something universal about love for these stories to interest such an enormous audience.

Selfishness, not any rival, is love’s enemy. One could say: my love’s main enemy, the one I must defeat, is not the other, it is myself, the “myself” that prefers identity to difference, that prefers to impose its world against the world re-constructed through the filter of difference.

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The world is full of new developments and love must also be something that innovates. Risk and adventure must be re-invented against safety and comfort.

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We know that a birth, at once a miracle and a challenge, is a test for all couples.