Wednesday, June 1, 2011

More Disquiet

"To understand, I destroyed myself. To understand is to forget about loving. I know nothing more simultaneously false and telling than the statement by Leonardo da Vinci that we cannot love or hate something until we've understood it.
Solitude devastates me; company oppresses me. The presence of another person derails my thoughts; I dream of the other's presence with a strange absent-mindedness that no amount of my analytical scrutiny can define."

2 comments:

  1. Oh I have done both. Loved without understanding or having wanted to understand. And loved after deciphering every bit of it. If you ask me which was better, I dunno. Each was a trip!

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  2. I suspect love ends when you think you have understood completely.

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