Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.”
"If on a winter's night a traveller". Chapter 7. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver (1981).
“Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.”
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
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.”
Original: Una meravigliosa relazione è composta da due persone che riescono a tornare bambini. Vivere ed amarsi da adolescenti, in un unico modo: puramente.
Source: prevale.net
“The paradox is that no love can prove so intense
as the love of two narcissists for each other.”
