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"It's nearly as hard as defining love; it's so individual," said Mr. Johnson, a former cheese salesman.
And in the end, concludes in the repetition of a single line, defining love by absence: "Beauty beauty beauty, there's nobody near me/ There never was".
He notes that Proust adopted his father's medical outlook in defining love as an illness or disease and that many of his descriptions were couched in the language of symptoms and diagnoses.
She organises her material roughly by theme, including chapters dealing with infidelity, the difficulty of defining love, attachment theory (which yields some interesting and suggestive material; my "avoidant style", I now think, is why my wife finds me so annoying), cultural expectations, long-term commitment, breakup and divorce, intimate partner violence and bereavement.
Just last month, The Atlantic's Christopher Orr sparked a great Internet discussion when he dubbed "Love Actually" (a holiday favorite of romcom lovers) the "least romantic film of all time," and preceded to painstakingly dissect the epic errors the film makes in defining love.
Creating something with love then destroying it with love to create something else is an act of rebellion in our American society, so focused on defining love by acquisition and ownership.
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"If that doesn't define love, I don't know what does".
Or perhaps encompassing men gawping at the possibly doomed Page 3 is to define love a bit loosely.
By the final curtain, one character even finds it possible to define love in one simple sentence.
Shakespeare came pretty close when he defined love: "Love is not love, which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove".
It's about being inspired in love and music.' I think she used to define love as frisson and excitement and now, maybe, she needs to define it as something that brings her safety, solidity.
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