Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
Interpretation
Love should be selfless and not based on selfish interests.
This quote suggests that true love cannot exist between two people who are solely focused on their own desires and needs. Instead, love requires mutual respect, understanding, and a willingness to put the other person first, moving beyond selfishness to find a deeper connection and commitment.
In practice
In a wedding ceremony to emphasize the importance of selflessness in marriage.
Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history. The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity. The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it's narcissistic. You don't connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.
The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.
I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.
Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart
Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.
He knew that hair couldn't feel; he kissed her hair.
Life is brief but love is LONG .
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