Sublime

It is not the place we occupy which is important, but the direction in which we move.

‘If you want my opinion concerning that, I’ll tell you that I don’t think there is a drama here. And here’s why. To my mind, love … the two loves that Plato, remember, defines in his Symposium,25 these two loves serve as a touchstone for people.

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There are people who take responsibility for making decisions for others and determining their relationship to God and to the world; and there are people, the overwhelming majority of them, who give this authority to the others, and blindly believe in everything they are told. Both groups of people commit an equal crime.

So the study of love has brought me to the study of life. To live in love is to live in life, and to live in life is to live in love.

Created by one of the world’s greatest novelists and thinkers to represent the very best of the world’s spiritual heritage, it draws on the greatest works of religion, philosophy, and literature the world has yet seen. It belongs among the very best creations of human genius, a work which will serve its readers as a practical spiritual guide on how

Tolstoï, Léon. La Sonate à Kreutzer, Paris : Folio, 1974.

think … if there are as many minds as there are men, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.’

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