“Everything pales into insignificance compared to our passionate attachment. In this sense, falling in love is like the blinding light that hit Saul/Paul on the road to Damascus: a kind of religious suspension of the Ethical, to use Kerkegaard's terms.”

—  Slavoj Žižek , book The Sublime Object of Ideology

Source: The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989), p.33, Idea's Appearing

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