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“The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.”

“Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most clearly recalled. One man remembers the combustible properties of a substance, which to another is memorable for its polarising property; to one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.”

Men Remember Water Quality Objects He Man Lovers Taste Property Determine Substance Memorable Streams Native One Man Impress Susceptibility Rendezvous Acquired Taste Water Power

Author:George Henry Lewes

“Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its lack. To whom is it lacking? To the lover. If we follow the trajectory of eros we consistently find it tracing out this same route: it moves out from the lover toward the beloved, then ricochets back to the lover himself and the hole in him, unnoticed before. Who is the subject of most love poems? Not the beloved. It is that hole.”

Source: Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

“Just as our taste in lovers is far more revealing than our choice of friends, the object of an artist's obsession can open up doors to their soul that might otherwise remain shut tight.”

Soul Might Artist Choices Doors Objects Lovers Taste Obsession Revealing Our Choices

Author:Vince Aletti

“The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another.”

Thinking Men Self Done Happens Beautiful Causes Objects Ought Self Love Lovers Honor Judgment Committed Arise Great Men Preference Blinded Blunders

Author:Plato

“This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.”

May Desire Passion Sea Objects Lovers Certainty Absent Fickle Dubious Objects Of Desire

Author:Tobsha Learner

“In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.”

Love Cities Cases Objects Lovers Ultimate Wander Settling Glances Metropolitan

Book:Pierre or The Ambiguities

Source: Pierre or The Ambiguities

“These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.”

Feels Use Objects Ready Lovers Spring Eternity Intelligent Terror Lovely Passing Passings Tension Poetic Traveler Consolation Time Passing Time Passes

Author:Andrei Codrescu

“My father had a phase of having jukeboxes all over the house. He was a music lover but he was also into musical machinery. Not instruments, he was never interested in playing particularly but there would be these odd objects, like valve amplifiers being dismantled on the kitchen table. My mum wasn't massively keen on that, but it was part of the environment.”

Would Be Father House Environment Objects Lovers Tables Instruments Musical Odd Kitchen Mum Phases Machinery Kitchen Table Valve Music Lover Amplifiers Jukebox

Author:Squarepusher

“He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.”

Ifs Men Giving Shows Turns Views Company Virtue Objects Lovers Errors Affection Committed Noble Improvement Good Man Villain Virtuous Deceived

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)