Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave (Hamish Hamilton, 1945) p. 89
25 Nov 2013
Romantic love, the supreme intoxication
For romantic love, the supreme intoxication of which we are capable, is more than an intensifying of life; it is a defiance of it; it belongs to those evasions of reality through excessive stimulus which Spinoza called 'titivations'.
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