“What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love?”

— David Foster Wallace, book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest (1996)
Context: What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?

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American fiction writer and essayist 1962–2008

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