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Rational love: Not mad at all

Love - romantic, passionate, erotic love - is often portrayed, understood, or lived as a type of madness. Scientists reveal chemical imbalances, psychologists classify it with various disorders, but while reading an old interview with Martha Nussbaum called “The Ethics of Literature” (sorry, no reference, it just exists as a dog-eared photocopied text found in […]

Book enemy

From the Quotes of the Day rss feed:
“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.” ~Paul Valéry