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“Oh, right, I keep forgetting, for lots and lots of people in the world, the notion of “falling in love” has (of all things) sexual connotations. No, that’s not what I think is happening. For me, what falling in love means is different. It’s a matter of suddenly, globally, “knowing” that another person represents your only access to some vitally transmissible truth or radiantly heightened mode of perception, and that if you lose the thread of this intimacy, both your soul and your whole world might subsist forever in some desert-like state of ontological impoverishment.”

Quote by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Work

A Dialogue on Love

This book delves into the complexities and nuances of love through a series of dialogues, examining its various aspects from different perspectives. more

Author

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was an influential American academic and literary critic, recognized for her contributions to queer theory and gender studies. She served as a professor at the University of Southern California and the University of Illinois at Chicago, and her writings have significantly influenced literary criticism and cultural studies. more

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