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Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another — physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.
Toni Morrison, African American novelist, essayist, and academic (1931–2019)
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While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths (and will explore several such myths later in this book), the myth of romantic love is a dreadful lie. Perhaps it is a necessary lie in that it ensures the survival of the species by its encouragement and seeming validation of the falling-in-love experience that traps us into marriage. But as a psychiatrist I weep in my heart almost daily for the ghastly confusion and suffering that this myth fosters. Millions of people waste vast amounts of energy desperately and futilely attempting to make the reality of their lives conform to the unreality of the myth.
M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist (1936–2005)
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A person who is another man's slave is better than one who is a slave to lust.
Michael Bassey Johnson
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I know girls aren't supposed to tell, but I've got to tell — just in case you should fail to love me because you never knew how much I loved you. I want not to have to say later — I wish I'd told him.
Iris Murdoch, Irish-born British writer and philosopher (1919–1999)
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