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  1. Jan 1, 2013 · You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. English novelist Iris Murdoch, in Existentialists and Mystics: Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.

  2. Feb 13, 2019 · With the arrival of Valentine's Day, we've gathered some of the choicest perspectives on the meaning of love from different disciplines. Novelists, poets, playwrights

  3. LOVE. In The Great Gatsby, love plays a vital role in the play. It is a theme that colours and permeates all the relationships in one way or another. Many have misunderstood the novel as a simple tragic romance, which ends with the main character’s death - an outcome of many romantic tragedies.

  4. Jan 7, 2015 · The Greatest Definition of Love. By Maria Popova. Literary history is as strewn with colorful attempts to define love — including some particularly memorable ones — as modern psychology is with attempts to dissect its inner workings.

  5. Apr 18, 2024 · “The Definition of Love” by Andrew Marvell presents love as a powerful force that is ultimately thwarted by the cruel hand of Fate, creating a sense of tragic longing in the speaker. Through the use of paradoxes, Marvell’s poem explores the complex and contradictory nature of love, where desire can be born from despair and fulfillment ...

  6. Jan 29, 2015 · The True Meaning of Love, as Told by the Most Beautiful Lines in Literature. Susan Sontag famously wrote, "Nothing is mysterious, no human relation, except love." She had a point. Philosophers...

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  8. All About Love: New Visions is a 2000 work of nonfiction by bell hooks that explores the concept of love in the modern United States. hooks addresses the simultaneous distrust of and longing for...

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