Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the depth and complexity of love, akin to a full musical scale.
Stephen Fry's quote suggests that love is not a simple emotion; rather, it involves a wide range of experiences and expressions, much like the varying tones in music. The reference to 'all eight tones and all five semitones' implies that love can manifest in diverse forms, from harmony to dissonance, each adding richness to our understanding and appreciation of this profound feeling.
In practice
In a wedding ceremony to express the multifaceted nature of love.
I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad things like a cave full of monsters and so, you're afraid of entering it. It's just nothingness, the void, emptiness and it is just horrible. It's like contemplating a future-less future and so you just want to step out of it. The monstrosity of being alive overwhelms you.
As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.
You can't just say there is a God because well, the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children. You have to account for the fact that almost all animals in the wild live under stress with not enough to eat and will die violent and bloody deaths. There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.
I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.
It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.
Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting.
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