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The start receives such disproportionate attention because it isn't deemed to be just one phase among many; for the Romantic, it contains in a concentrated form everything significant about love as a whole. Which is why, in so many love stories, there is simply nothing else for the narrator to do with a couple after they have triumphed over a range of initial obstacles other than to consign them to an ill-defined contented future--or kill them off. What we typically call love is only the start of love.
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romance
love-stories
love-at-first-sight
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Alain de Botton |
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All love stories have much in common. I wen through the same thing at one point in my life. But that's not what I remember. What I remember is that love returned in the form of another man, new hopes, and new dreams.
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hope
river-piedra
paulo-coelho
love-stories
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Paulo Coelho |
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A disproportionate number of stories are love stories - and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?
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love-stories
writers
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Christopher Bram |
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And even when he guessed that the love stories of the misled and the forsaken had become a little less authentic with each retelling . . . even if this was the case, he was still moved. Indeed, he was more moved by the lives of the bereft and the unchosen than he was by stories of success in love.
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love
forsaken
love-stories
unlucky-in-love
the-only-story
julian-barnes
unrequited-love
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Julian Barnes |