Love and honor. They are the two great things, and now theyre dimmed and blighted. Today, love is just sex and sentimentality. Love is really a recognition of truth, a recognition of another persons integrity and truth in a way that is compatible with that makes both of you light up when you recognize the quality in the other. Thats what love is. Its a recognition of singularity And love is giving and giving and giving not looking for any return. Until you do that, you cant love.
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About Robert Graves
Robert Graves was a 19th-century English poet, novelist and critic. Robert von Ranke Graves was an English poet, novelist and critic. His father was Alfred Perceval Graves, a celebrated Irish poet and figure in the Gaelic revival; they were both Celticists and students of Irish mythology. Read more on Wikipedia →
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