Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bitter-sweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt to take on […]
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That’s something that always concerned me and was one of the first things I researched when I first tapped into the fascinating world of psychology. This quote by Alain de Botton reflects one of the main reasons people prefer pining after unavailable people: the fear of being responsible for someone else’s feelings.
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I dust [your photo] carefully every morning, for to do so gives me the pleasant feeling that I’m caressing you as in the old days. I even touch your nose with mine to recapture the electric current that used to flush through my blood whenever I did so.
Don’t you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered—and I was delivered to you—to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet
“What cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart
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