“If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
Section 5 : Love and Marriage
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences. Without the likeness there would be no attraction; without the challenge of the complementary differences there could not be the closer interweaving and the inextinguishable mutual interest which is the characteristic of all deeper relationships.
“That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.”
“In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.”
“If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.”
Source: Germinal
“and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.”
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.”
