We love even when our love is not requited.
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If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
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Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.
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Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.
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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
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