“If you asked most people whether they believed in love or not, they’d probably say they didn’t. Yet that’s not necessarily what they truly think. It’s just the way they defend themselves against what they want. They believe in it, but pretend they don’t until they’re allowed to. Most people would th…”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com
“But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before in his life! Was it simply the hysteria of a man who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it? His unconscious was so cowardly that the b…”— Milan Kundera, amazon.ca