“If love in society is to represent a better one, it cannot do so as a peaceful enclave, but only by conscious opposition. This, however, demands precisely the element of voluntariness that the bourgeois, for whom love can never be natural enough, forbid it. Loving means not letting immediacy wither under the omnipresent weight of mediation and economics, and in such fidelity it becomes itself mediated, as a stubborn counter-pressure. He alone loves who has the strength to hold fast to love.” LoveStrengthAuthenticityFidelityVolition Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Everywhere bourgeois society insists on the exertion of will; only love is supposed to be involuntary, pure immediacy of feeling. In its longing for this, which means a dispensation from work, the bourgeois idea of love transcends bourgeois society.” LoveTruthSexWorkCapitalismPurityFeelingBourgeois Society Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life