Stumbled across this again...
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goldvermilion87I wasn't looking for it, but it is no coincidence that I found it while composing something on A Scandal in Belgravia.
It says something that I am constantly wanting to rant about (and sometimes do rant about to my friends) but it says it far better than I ever could:
"Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love, but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. The rest of us know that though we can have erotic love and friendship for the same person yet in some ways nothing is less like a Friendship than a love-affair. Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever about their Friendship. Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other; Friends, side by side, absorbed in some common interest. Above all, Eros (while it lasts) is necessarily between two only. But two, far from being the necessary number for Friendship, is not even the best."
-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
It says something that I am constantly wanting to rant about (and sometimes do rant about to my friends) but it says it far better than I ever could:
"Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love, but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. The rest of us know that though we can have erotic love and friendship for the same person yet in some ways nothing is less like a Friendship than a love-affair. Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever about their Friendship. Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other; Friends, side by side, absorbed in some common interest. Above all, Eros (while it lasts) is necessarily between two only. But two, far from being the necessary number for Friendship, is not even the best."
-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
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Date: 2012-02-12 02:12 pm (UTC)