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“Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite”

Source: A Natural History of Love

“Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.”

Diane Ackerman book A Natural History of the Senses

Source: A Natural History of the Senses (1991), p. 229

“We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the word. After all, love requires the utmost vulnerability. We equip someone with freshly sharpened knives; strip naked; then invite him to stand close. What could be scarier?”

A Natural History of Love (1994)