If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul SartreRead
It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that love is a privilege that must be earned through sacrifice and struggle.
Jean-Paul Sartre implies that the ability to love is often contingent upon overcoming significant challenges and hardships. In this context, love is not merely a spontaneous feeling but something that is forged through the trials and tribulations of life, hinting at the weight of emotional investment and the sacrifices required to truly deserve and understand love.
In practice
In a discussion about the depth of love and commitment during a relationship seminar.
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
All I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to retain my freedom.' I should myself have thought,' said Jacques, 'that freedom consisted in frankly confronting situations into which one had deliberately entered, and accepting all one's responsibilities. But that, no doubt, is not your view.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.
I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.
Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.
Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.
I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.' But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time." "Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but THAT was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.
An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.
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