Seminal Lines
by dollydelightly
“People live together for years, they sleep pressed up against each other; a mingling of dreams, a mingling of sweat. They tell each other everything, give each other everything. They take on each other’s habits, each other’s ways of looking at things, ways of talking, even aspects of appearance. In every sense of the word, they belong to each other from top to toe. And then suddenly they leave each other, they tear apart. How do they do it? How do they bring themselves to it?”
Sapho – Alphonse Daudet
Ouch.
Brilliant quote, great photo.
I enjoyed the quotation. (So many possibles answers to the question, depending on your philosophical stance: mine would be decidedly Kierkegaardian, but it is so much more poetic to let the question remain rhetorical.)
I have a vague recollection of a line from Either/Or where Kierkegaard asserts that the best thing two people in love can do is walk away from it to avoid its inevitable end. Terribly paraphrased, but is that what you were referring to?
They can chose to walk away or chose to remain in love, to choose is the thing. Love is always a choice, no?