"Love is of source unknown yet it grows ever deeper. The living may die of it, by its power the dead live again. Love is not love at its fullest if one who is living is unwilling to die for it, or if it cannot restore to life one who has died. And must love that comes in dream necessarily be unreal? For there is no lack of dream lovers in this world. Only for those whose love must be fulfilled on the pillow, and for whom affection deepens only after retirement from office, is it an entirely corporeal matter."
~~Tang Xianzu; The Peony Pavilion
Monday, July 27, 2009
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Love when agitiated is a dreadful, self-sacrificing thing to ask of us, but it is the only balm that will heal the wound.
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