I have stretched ropes from bell-tower to bell-tower; garlands from window to window; chains of gold from star to star, and I dance. - Arthur Rimbaud

Love...no such thing.

Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.

Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.

J'ai vu le soleil bas, taché d'horreurs mystiques,
Illuminant de longs figements violets,
Pareils à des acteurs de drames très-antiques.

I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.