Je sais que je reviendrai toujours à Genève, peut-être même après la mort de mon corps.

La conviction est aujourd’hui largement répandue que chacun ne suit que son intérêt. Alors l’amour est une contre-épreuve. L’amour est cette confiance faite au hasard.

  **

Claudel est particulièrement sensible àceci que l’amour véritable franchit toujours un point d’impossibilité : « Distants, encore que ne cessant de peser l’un sur l’autre »… L’amour n’est pas à proprement parler une possibilité, mais plutôt le franchissement de quelque chose qui pouvait apparaître comme impossible. Quelque chose existe qui n’avait pas de raison d’être, qui ne vous était pas donné comme une possibilité.

L’amour est partage et réciprocité : il s’agit d’accepter, à la fois, d’aimer et d’être aimé.
Dans l’histoire et la littérature, les interdits religieux autant que les refus familiaux ou sociaux n’empêchent pas l’amour de se réaliser. Au contraire même, ils renforcent la puissance du désir. La passion étourdissante de Roméo et Juliette est au premier rang des amours contrariées. Elle n’est que la plus connue de ces grandes passions, fictives ou réelles, qui ont enflammé tant de cœurs, à toutes les époques et sous toutes les latitudes, et dont le cinéma aujourd’hui continue à témoigner.
Malgré les difficultés inhérentes à l’époque de la communication électronique et virtuelle, sur internet notamment, les sources des empêchements à aimer ne viennent pas de l’extérieur, de la société ou des autres, mais de soi, en son for intérieur, et des convictions figées qui nous limitent.

In fact, they hardly touched. He remained on one side of the room, she on the other. Far from being a Don Juan, he was a sexual neophyte alone in the apartment of a fabled seductress, who had enjoyed deep romantic attachments with half a dozen supremely talented men. She was already investing their meeting with mystical historical and erotic significance, while he fought shy of these undercurrents and kept a safe intellectual distance. Besides, he was also aware of more quotidian needs. He had already been there six hours and he wanted to go to the lavatory. But it would have broken the mood to do so, and in any case, the communal toilet was down the dark hallway. So he remained and listened, smoking another of his Swiss cigars. As she poured out the story of her love-life, he compared her to Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and, moving his cigar hand to and fro – a gesture she was to capture in a line of verse – traced Mozart’s melody in the air between them.
…
By then it was light outside and they could both hear the sound of freezing rain falling in the Fontanka. He rose and kissed her hand and walked back to the Astoria, dazed, ‘turned over’, exalted. He looked at his watch and discovered it was eleven in the morning. Brenda Tripp clearly remembered him saying, when he threw himself down on the bed of his room, ‘I am in live, I am in love.’
In his memory, there was nothing else of his visit to the city, only Akhmatova.

れん あい 【恋愛】　特定の異性に対して他の全てを犠牲にしても悔い無いと思い込むような愛情をいだき、常に相手のことを思っては、二人だけでいたい、二人だけの世界を分かち合いたいと願い、それがかなえられたと言っては喜び、ちょっとでも疑念が生じれば不安になるといった状態に身を置くこと。
こう ふく 【幸福】　現在（に至るまで）の自分の環境に十分な安らぎや精神的な充足を覚え、あえてそれ以上を望もうとする気持をいだくことも無く、現状が持続してほしいと思うこと（心の状態）。

Romantic love is an addiction. My guess is that our modern addictions — nicotine, drugs, sex, gambling — are simply hijacking this ancient brain pathway that evolved millions of years ago, that evolved for romantic love. … The brain system evolved to focus your energy on an individual and start the mating process.
Nobody gets out of love alive. (It’s like trying to give up cigarettes and having one every afternoon. It’s just not going to happen.) You turn into a menace or a pest when you’ve been rejected. That’s when people stalk or commit suicide. … There’s a very powerful brain system that has a dramatic effect on your entire life.
Our poets, our songs, our novels, our sitcoms, our operas, our plays, have been discussing it forever and now we can confirm it with what we found in the brain.
You just crave this person. You’re willing to do crazy things, stupid things. Just as a person would while fighting a drug addiction, a lovelorn person obsesses, craves and distorts reality.

On pardonne tant que l’on aime.

The notion of love as “mystery” is so ingrained in the human imagination, it may be our oldest cliché. Plato called it “irrational desire.” Cole Porter seemed to speak for most of us when he threw up his hands and, in a kind of musical sigh of resignation asked, “What is this thing called love?” In his classic song, a person describes being content, even if leading a “humdrum” life, until love mysteriously “flew in,” changed everything, and made “a fool of me.”
How much control do we have over love? Much less than we like to think. All that mystery, all that poetry, all those complex behaviors sur­rounding human bonding leading to the most life-changing decisions we’ll ever make, are unconsciously driven by a few molecules in our brains.

Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other.

homo sibi ipsi adsciscit societates, seu semet ipsum ponit in societate talium, nam simile simili associatur, ut pro exemplo, qui avarus est, is adsciscit societates similium qui in tali cupiditate sunt; qui amat se prae aliis, et contemnit alios, is adsciscit similes; qui in vindictis jucundum habet, is tales qui in simili jucundo sunt; ita in reliquis;

をんなが附属品をだんだん棄てると
どうしてこんなにきれいになるのか。
年で洗はれたあなたのからだは
無辺際を飛ぶ天の金属。
見えも外聞もてんで歯のたたない
中身ばかりの清冽な生きものが
生きて動いてさつさつと意慾する。
をんながをんなを取りもどすのは
かうした世紀の修業によるのか。
あなたが黙つて立つてゐると
まことに神の造りしものだ。
時時内心おどろくほど
あなたはだんだんきれいになる。

恋愛においては直感を最優先するのが正解。恋愛のはじめはもちろん、恋愛中の直感も信じていいんです。

• 口ではうまく言えないけどけど好き　好みのタイプは、脳の扁桃体という部分から生まれてくる感情。扁桃体は、3歳までの刷り込みにより、自分の好みのタイプが決まります。扁桃体の判断が、ドーパミンを出すかどうか決めているんですね。
• 外見で判断する　はじめの直感を信じましょう。内面は、必ず顔つき、雰囲気、口調、声、たたずまいなどの外見にあらわれるものです。20代にもなれば、自分なりの肌で人となりを感じる感覚は身に付いています。考えても分からないときは、はじめの印象を参考にしましょう。
• 目を見るだけで相手の気持ちが分かる　目と目で通じ合うコミュニケーションは、オキトシンというものに関連します。オキトシンは、別名「恋愛ホルモン」。他者と一対一の絆を育み、相手の感情を読みとるなど心を通じ合わせるのに重要なホルモンです。

人間も動物です。特に恋愛においては、頭で考えるよりも、直感を重要視しましょう。

I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a dull business because of the physical limitations of age.
Failing memory would make interesting conversation impossible, and old people didn’t seem inclined or able to participate in the lovely stuff of love — sadly, because what better way to get through that wretchedly boring, painful and terrifying period we call our golden years?
So I certainly wasn’t looking for love when I met George. At 83, he was recently widowed, and I was a long-divorced 71.

As we get older, we come to see how useless it is to be selfish – how illogical, really.  We come to love other people and are thereby counter-instructed in our own centrality.
A prediction, and my heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love. You will gradually be replaced by love.
If we’re going to become kinder, that process has to include taking ourselves seriously – as doers, as accomplishers, as dreamers.
Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up.  Speed it along.  Start right now.  There’s a confusion in each of us, a sickness, really: selfishness.  But there’s also a cure.  So be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf – seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life.

人間性の省察は、夫婦の関係に於ては、いはゞ鬼の目の如きもので、夫婦はいはゞ、弱点、欠点を知りあひ、むしろ欠点に於て関係や対立を深めるやうなものでもある。その対立はぬきさしならぬものとなり、憎しみは深かまり、安き心もない。知性あるところ、夫婦のつながりは、むしろ苦痛が多く、平和は少いものである。然し、かゝる苦痛こそ、まことの人生なのである。苦痛をさけるべきではなく、むしろ、苦痛のより大いなる、より鋭くより深いものを求める方が正しい。夫婦は愛し合ふと共に憎み合ふのが当然であり、かゝる憎しみを怖れてはならぬ。正しく憎み合ふがよく、鋭く対立するがよい。
いはゆる良妻の如く、知性なく、眠れる魂の、良犬の如くに訓練されたドレイのやうな従順な女が、真実の意味に於て良妻である筈はない。そしてかゝる良妻の附属品たる平和な家庭が、尊ばれるべきものでないのは言ふまでもない。男女の関係に平和はない。人間関係には平和は少い。平和をもとめるなら孤独をもとめるに限る。そして坊主になるがよい。出家遁世といふ奴は平安への唯一の道だ。
だいたい恋愛などゝいふものは、偶然なもので、たまたま知り合つたがために恋し合ふにすぎず、知らなければそれまで、又、あらゆる人間を知つての上での選択ではなく、少数の周囲の人からの選択であるから、絶対などといふものとは違ふ。その心情の基盤はきはめて薄弱なものだ。年月がすぎれば退屈もするし、欠点が分れば、いやにもなり、外に心を惹かれる人があれば、顔を見るのもイヤになる。それを押しての夫妻であり、矛盾をはらんでの人間関係であるから、平安よりも、苦痛が多く、愛情よりも憎しみや呪ひが多くなり、関係の深かまるにつれて、むしろ、対立がはげしくなり、ぬきさしならぬものとなるのが当然なのである。

The mojito is an old classic, whose creator is not certain. In short there are two theories where one tells the tale that the mojito was created among the black slaves in early America, where an ancestor to todays rum types was used. Another theory is that it was a traveller/explorer who invented a recipe containing mint, lime, cane sugar and the rum of the time. No matter who invented it we are certainly very happy about it.

土の中などに生息する「線虫」と呼ばれる小さな生物のオスは、食べ物よりも異性を探すことを優先していることが東京大学の調査で分かり、研究グループは、ほかの生物にも同じ傾向があるのではないかとみています。
東京大学大学院の飯野雄一教授などの研究グループは、土の中などに生息する体長１ミリほどの線虫が、食べ物と異性のどちらを優先して探しているか調査しました。
その結果、線虫は通常、食べ物がある場所を求めて行動しますが、オスの多くは、食べ物がなくても異性が存在していると考えられる場所に向かって行くことが分かったということです。
一方、メスの機能を持つ線虫については、異性が存在するかどうかに関係なく、食べ物があると考えられる場所に向かって行ったということです。
研究グループでは、オスの行動については、ほかの生物にも同じ傾向があるのではないかとみていて、飯野教授は「生き物に備わっている本能的な現象ではないかと想像される」と話しています。

People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.

L’amour est un art, comme la musique.

L’amour ne veut pas la durée; il veut l’instant et l’éternité.

（第４版）れんあい【恋愛】　特定の異性に特別の愛情をいだいて、二人だけで一緒に居たい、出来るなら合体したいという気持ちを持ちながら、それが、常にはかなえられないで、ひどく心を苦しめる・（まれにかなえられて歓喜する）状態　

（第５版）れんあい【恋愛】　特定の異性に特別の愛情をいだき、高揚した気分で、二人だけで一緒にいたい、精神的な一体感を分かち合いたい、出来るなら肉体的な一体感も得たいと願いながら、常にはかなえられないで、やるせない思いに駆られたり、まれにかなえられて歓喜したりする状態に身を置くこと。

（第６版）れんあい【恋愛】　特定の異性に対して他の全てを犠牲にしても悔い無いと思い込むような愛情をいだき、常に相手のことを思っては、二人だけでいたい、二人だけの世界を分かち合いたいと願い、それがかなえられたと言っては喜び、ちょっとでも疑念が生じれば不安になるといった状態に身を置くこと。

   手紙ありがたう しつかりした精神をもつて 元気で居ることを聞いて 喜んで居ます
   国家は多事であるが 私は丈夫で居るから安心してください 今度のような決心をしなければならない事情を早く話せばよかつたけれど 先生とあまりちがつたことをいうことになるので ひかへて居つたことを許してくれ　敗因について一言いわしてくれ
   我が国人が あまり皇国を信じ過ぎて 英米をあなどつたことである
   我が軍人は 精神に重きをおきすぎて 科学を忘れたことである
   明治天皇の時には 山県 大山 山本等の如き陸海軍の名将があつたが 今度の時は あたかも第一次世界大戦の独国の如く 軍人がバツコして大局を考へず 進を知つて 退くことを知らなかつたからです
   戦争をつづければ 三種神器を守ることも出来ず 国民をも殺さなければならなくなつたので 涙をのんで 国民の種をのこすべくつとめたのである
   穂積大夫は常識の高い人であるから わからない所があつたら きいてくれ
   寒くなるから 心体を大切に勉強なさい
   九月九日 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　父より
   明仁へ

どんなかたちの愛であれ、私たちは、愛する人と一緒に過ごす時間が心地良い。もっと言うなら、一緒にいるだけで、相手がどうだろうが、勝手にこっちがうれしい。心が安らぐ。夢見心地になる。静かな喜びに満たされる。そして、持続する関係とは、相互の献身の応酬ではなく、相手のおかげで、それぞれが、自分自身に感じる何か特別な居心地の良さなのではないだろうか？
。。。愛とは、「その人といるときの自分の分人が好き」という状態のことである。
。。。文学はまさしく、個人であるはずの主人公が、恋愛をする複数の分人を抱えてしまっていることによる矛盾と葛藤を、飽きもせずに延々と描いてきた。

By imputing to human love features properly reserved for divine love, such as the unconditional and the eternal, we falsify the nature of this most conditional and time-bound and earthy emotion, and force it to labour under intolerable expectations. This divinisation of human love is the latest chapter in humanity’s impulsive quest to steal the powers of its gods, and the longest-running such attempt to reach beyond our humanity. Like the others it must fail; for the moral of these stories is that the limits of the human can be ignored only at terrible cost.

A mother’s task is never ending. It doesn’t stop even she’s in the office or anywhere away from home. There’s no day offs or time outs. No amount of money would compensate for the enormous tasks that a mother takes, but the hugs, smiles, kisses of her children are enough to soothe, to lift her up and to refresh her soul. She is like a wonder woman. She takes different roles at different times. She could be a teacher, then a counselor, a nurse, a caregiver, a protector, a playmate or a friend. She would try hard to be what she thinks her children need her to be in a given moment. A mother will do everything even the unimaginable out of her enormous love for her children.

This is the closest thing to crazy I have ever been
Feeling twenty-two, acting seventeen,
This is the nearest thing to crazy I have ever known,
I was never crazy on my own…
And now I know that there’s a link between the two,
Being close to craziness and being close to you.

The sun is only shining like it always does
But I never noticed it in the sky before
And you don’t need to worry
‘Cause I need your love, my friend
There’s a strong kind of feeling when I know you’re near
Nobody alive can take it away from me
And I feel like I’ve known you for a thousand years
Bring it out into the light
‘Cause I think I’m gonna write it on the walls of the world
So everyone will know today the love I hold for you
I will write it on the walls of the world
So that the sun won’t fade away the words I say to you
I love you
And I know I’m not a loser when I’m on my own
I could be miles away in another land
And it keeps me together when I’m far from home
I won’t keep it out of sight
And I think I’m gonna write it on the walls of the world
So everyone will know today the love I hold for you
I will write it on the walls of the world
So that the sun won’t fade away the words I say to you
I love you

when you’re weary, feeling small, when tears are in your eyes, I will dry them all
I’m on your side, when times get rough, and friends just can’t be found
like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down
when you’re down and out, when you’re on the street, when evening falls so hard
I will comfort you, I’ll take your part, when darkness comes, and pain is all around
like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down

sky is alone
sea is alone
I am alone by myself
but
sky is with clouds
sea is with waves
always talking together
laughing joyfully
loving innocently
always living together
why am I alone
with full of tears in my mind
I have to live
without a love
in such a loneliness

空もひとり
海もひとり
わたしもひとり
でも
空は雲に
海は波に
話しかけて
楽しそうに
笑いながら
生きているのに
なぜわたしひとり
こころに涙ためて
さみしさに耐えながら
生きてゆくのか

Numbers aren’t the important thing … what matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.

아침 햇살에 내가 처음 눈을 떴을때
나를 반겨 주는 얼굴이 그대이길 바래
짙은 어둠 속에서 내가 힘들어 할때
나의 어깨 감싸줄 사람 그대 이길 바래
사랑해 오직 단 한 사람
나의 전부를 다 주고픈 사람
항상 그대 곁에서 난 꿈을 꾸고 싶어요
내 모든걸 다 바쳐서 그댈 사랑하며
항상 그대 안에서 난 편히 쉬고 싶어요
그대 나와 가는 길이 행복할수 있게
벽에 걸린 사진이 빛이 바랄 때까지
내 곁에 있는 단 한 사람 그대이길 바래
깊은 절망 속에도 항상 내 곁에 서서
나의 손을 잡아줄 사람 그대 이길 바래
사랑해 오직 단 한 사람
나의 전부를 다 주고픈 사람
항상 그대 곁에서 난 꿈을 꾸고 싶어요
내 모든걸 다 바쳐서 그댈 사랑하며
항상 그대 안에서 난 편히 쉬고 싶어요
그대 나와 가는 길이 행복할수 있게
때로는 슬픈 일이 그대와 날 힘들게도 하겠죠
하지만 변함없는 우리 사랑으로 지켜나가요
항상 그대 곁에서 난 꿈을 꾸고 싶어요
내 모든걸 다 바쳐서 그댈 사랑하며
항상 그대 안에서 난 편히 쉬고 싶어요
그대 나와 가는 길이 행복할수 있게

Nothing is Gonna Change My Love for You

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

　街を去った人よ
　もう何も望まないで
　ふるさとみたいにここに
　戻ることは出来ない
　何処か遠い国で
　安らぎだけを掴む
　それが出来るならば
　ほかはいいじゃないの
　誰が何をしようとも
　構わないけれど
　私はいる
　このさわがしい楽園に

L’amour ne peut pas se réduire à la rencontre, car il est une construction. […] Le point le plus intéressant, au fond, ce n’est pas la question de l’extase des commencements. Il y a bien sûr une extase des commencements, mais un amour, c’est avant tout une construction durable. Disons que l’amour est une aventure obstinée. Le côté aventureux est nécessaire, mais ne l’est pas moins l’obstination. Laisser tomber au premier obstacle, à la première divergence sérieuse, aux premiers ennuis, n’est qu’une défiguration de l’amour. Un amour véritable est celui qui triomphe durablement, parfois durement, des obstacles que l’espace, le monde et le temps lui proposent.

Любовь — это бесценный дар. Это единственная вещь, которую мы можем подарить и все же она у тебя остаётся.

All you need is love.

• Amor vincit omnia.
  Omnia vincit amor.
• Amor caecus est.
• Amor non est medicabilis herbis.
  Nullis amor est medicabilis herbis.
• Sine amor, nihil est vita

Now that I have gone to my reward, I have confessions and things I should now say. As it turns out, I AM the guy who stole the safe from the Motor View Drive Inn back in June, 1971. I could have left that unsaid, but I wanted to get it off my chest.
I really am NOT a PhD. What happened was that the day I went to pay off my college student loan at the U of U, the girl working there put my receipt into the wrong stack, and two weeks later, a PhD diploma came in the mail. I didn’t even graduate, I only had about 3 years of college credit. In fact, I never did even learn what the letters “PhD” even stood for. For all of the Electronic Engineers I have worked with, I’m sorry, but you have to admit my designs always worked very well, and were well engineered, and I always made you laugh at work.
Now to that really mean Park Ranger; after all, it was me that rolled those rocks into your geyser and ruined it. I did notice a few years later that you did get Old Faithful working again. To Disneyland – you can now throw away that “Banned for Life” file you have on me, I’m not a problem anymore – and SeaWorld San Diego, too, if you read this.
My regret is that I felt invincible when young and smoked cigarettes when I knew they were bad for me. Now, to make it worse, I have robbed my beloved Mary Jane of a decade or more of the two of us growing old together and laughing at all the thousands of simple things that we have come to enjoy and fill our lives with such happy words and moments. My pain is enormous, but it pales in comparison to watching my wife feel my pain as she lovingly cares for and comforts me. I feel such the ‘thief’ now – for stealing so much from her – there is no pill I can take to erase that pain.

In der Liebe sprechen Hände und Augen meist lauter als der Mund.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

What is love? It is one of the most difficult questions for the mankind. Centuries have passed by, relationships have bloomed and so has love. But no one can give the proper definition of love. …
Love is the greatest feeling in the whole world. When you are in love, you see mainly the positive sides of the character of the person, you are in love with. Everyone wonder sometimes what the reasons I love you are. …
What is true love? The true love is something that everyone wants to feel, but it is a fact that only a little part of the people has the luck to meet her. …

American women (and Americans in general) tend to be very goal-oriented when it comes to love, sex, and dating. Rather than setting things in motion and embracing the unknown, Americans generally prefer to set things in stone with a list of clear objectives, goals and outcomes: Is he/she my soul mate or my future spouse? Where, exactly, is this relationship going? Does he/she love me, or not? From the time we’re little girls, we grow up thinking about love in terms of total love or absolute rejection — unlike the French.
Even as children we say, “He loves me/He loves me not” when picking off flower petals and pondering love. A French girl, however, grows up with this refrain instead: “He loves me a little, a lot, madly, passionately, or not at all.” From the get-go, she thinks of love not in terms of black and white (either/or) but in shades of gray; love comes in a whole spectrum of possibilities. That’s a very different way of looking at love.

When two people become a couple, the brain extends its idea of self to include the other; instead of the slender pronoun “I,” a plural self emerges who can borrow some of the other’s assets and strengths. The brain knows who we are. The immune system knows who we’re not, and it stores pieces of invaders as memory aids. Through lovemaking, or when we pass along a flu or a cold sore, we trade bits of identity with loved ones, and in time we become a sort of chimera. We don’t just get under a mate’s skin, we absorb him or her.

Im Sturz durch Zeit und Raum, erwacht aus einem Traum…
Nur ein kurzer Augenblick – dann kehrt die Nacht zurück.
Bits and pieces from your star
Rain upon me as they fall;
Melt into my skin and I feel warm.
Sweep upon me like a wave.
We are young and brave:
Embrace the wind and float into another time & space.
Gib mir die Hand – ich bau dir ein Schloss aus Sand
Irgendwie, irgendwo, irgendwann…
If we belong to each other,
We belong anyplace, anywhere, anytime.

(XIXe siècle)
Je t’aime, c’est ma plume qui te l’écrit
et c’est mon coeur qui te le dit.

(XXe siècle)
Je t’aime, c’est mon clavier qui te l’écrit
mais c’est mon coeur qui te le dit.

(XXIe siècle)
Je t’aime, c’est mon cerveau qui te l’envoie
mais c’est mon corps qui te le dit.

>The best happen when you and someone who has strengths that complement yours join forces and focus on a single goal. Your strengths cancel out your partner’s weaknesses, and vice versa. You accomplish together what could not be done separately.
Before you can forge a successful alliance, you must understand what you bring to the combination, and equally important, what you don’t.

>l barbiere di Siviglia

>He is similar to me in many things, even though there are also many things in which we are different. We have many things in common. … We had a special kind of closeness because of our personality.

>Falling in love is a thing that strikes like lightning and is, therefore, extremely analogous to the mystical vision… We do not really know how people obtain [these experiences], and there is not as yet a very clear rationale as to why it happens. If you should be so fortunate as to encounter either of these experiences, it seems to me to be a total denial of life to refuse it.

>А что происходит, когда люди влюбляются? Они не кричат, напротив, говорят тихо. Потому, что их сердца находятся очень близко, и расстояние между ними совсем маленькое. А когда влюбляются еще сильнее, что происходит? Не говорят, а только перешептываются и становятся еще ближе в своей любви.
В конце даже перешептывание становится им не нужно. Они только смотрят друг на друга и все понимают без слов. Такое бывает, когда рядом двое любящих людей.

>Maladie d’amour, maladie de la jeunesse
Si tu n’aimes que moi
Reste tout près de moi, oh…
Maladie d’amour, maladie de la jeunesse
Si tu n’aimes que moi
Reste tout près de moi

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Когда они встретились впервые, Борис Леонидович был уже знаменитым поэтом, а Ольга Всеволодовна — младшим редактором в журнале “Новый мир”. Ему было 56, ей — 34. Встреча произошла в 1946 году. Поэт пришел в редакцию, они разговорились, он пообещал подарить ей свои книги и на следующий день прислал пакет с пятью томами …
С тех пор они стали видеться почти каждый день. Первые свидания были целомудренны, они просто гуляли по Москве …

>The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

>You and I
You, you and I
I rather die
Without you and I

人は愛ゆえに縛られ苦しむが、同時に、愛によって許され救われるのである。愛のために許され救われるのである。愛のために人は間違ったことをしたり道に迷ったりするわけだが、愛がなければまた正しい道も見つけられない。いや、むしろ、間違うからこそ正しい道が見いだせるとも言えるのだ。
キリスト教において「愛」はもっとも重要な教義だが、実際に「愛」を真摯に貫いている人間など、学校でも教会でもあまり見たことがない。彼らは決して間違えようとしないから、「愛」の本質に永遠にたどり着けないのかもしれない。

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>「愛」とは与えるものです。
「与えられる愛」は与えてくれる人の愛で、「与える愛」はあなたの愛です。

>L’amour est une étoffe tissée par la nature et brodée par l’imagination.

>Doux, doux, l’amour est doux
Douce est ma vie, ma vie dans tes bras
Doux, doux, l’amour est doux
Douce est ma vie, ma vie près de toi

Bleu, bleu, l’amour est bleu
Berce mon cœur, mon cœur amoureux
Bleu, bleu, l’amour est bleu
Bleu comme le ciel qui joue dans tes yeux

Comme l’eau, comme l’eau qui court
Moi, mon cœur court après ton amour

Kissing is like sea water, the more you drink it the more you get thirsty. Though a small giggly thing yet immensely brings two people close to each other, increases trust and level of security. Ever wonder how just the touching of lips can bind the two souls the way it does?
Two lips melt in a blissful fantasy, when touch each other give birth to a moment of pure joy, the joy of breathing each other, you feel like you have become a part of his breath, or you have absorb a part of his breath inside you. Some women believe kissing is even more intimate then making love, cause it is deprived of satisfaction yet it makes you a part of each other, hence making it more passionate yet unsatisfied, it leaves you craving and craving for more.

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>Earlier this year, I carried out an fMRI experiment to find out whether iPhones were really, truly addictive, no less so than alcohol, cocaine, shopping or video games. In conjunction with the San Diego-based firm MindSign Neuromarketing, I enlisted eight men and eight women between the ages of 18 and 25. Our 16 subjects were exposed separately to audio and to video of a ringing and vibrating iPhone.
In each instance, the results showed activation in both the audio and visual cortices of the subjects’ brains. In other words, when they were exposed to the video, our subjects’ brains didn’t just see the vibrating iPhone, they “heard” it, too; and when they were exposed to the audio, they also “saw” it. This powerful cross-sensory phenomenon is known as synesthesia.
But most striking of all was the flurry of activation in the insular cortex of the brain, which is associated with feelings of love and compassion. The subjects’ brains responded to the sound of their phones as they would respond to the presence or proximity of a girlfriend, boyfriend or family member.
In short, the subjects didn’t demonstrate the classic brain-based signs of addiction. Instead, they loved their iPhones.

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Respect means the concern that the other person should grow and unfold as they are. Respect, thus, implies the absense of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for their own sake, and not for the purpose of serving me. If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with them as they are, not as I need them to be as an object for my use. It is clear that respect is only possible if I have achieved independence, without having to exploit anyone else. Respect exists only on the basis of freedom, for love is the child of freedom, never that of domination.

Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

>The things we love are the things that last…

>人生には大事な大事な一日があればいいの。もう、それで十分。

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