Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unna…

James Joyce
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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another s soul. ✨ James Joyce (1992). Poems and Exiles, ePenguin
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