“Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.”
Source: Midnight all Day
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Hanif Kureishi 23
English playwright, screenwriter, novelist 1954Related quotes
“Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.”
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VII : Love, Suffering, Pity
Context: Consciousness (conscientia) is participated knowledge, is co-feeling, and co-feeling is com-passion. Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea. And when love is so great and so vital, so strong and so overflowing, that it loves everything, then it personalizes everything and discovers that the total All, that the Universe, is also a person possessing a Consciousness, a Consciousness which in its turn suffers, pities, and loves, and therefore is consciousness. And this Consciousness of the Universe, which a love, personalizing all that it loves, discovers, is what we call God.
Variant: It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.
Source: Every Day
Section 9 (quoted from Ortega y Gasset, “On Love”)
The Einstein Intersection (1967)
“Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and difficult as that.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“My job is to help you fall in love.”
Speech at Brown University (1995)
