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A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

Book by Diane Ackerman · 3 quotes · Love Is, Emotion, People

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A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses Quotes

“When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion.”

“We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the word. After all, love requires the utmost vulnerability. We equip someone with freshly sharpened knives; strip naked; then invite him to stand close. What could be scarier?”