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Robert Louis Stevenson on Falling in Love and Loving Beyond the Fall

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Robert Louis Stevenson on Falling in Love and Loving Beyond the Fall
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It seems odd, wrong even, that “patience” and “passion” — the twin roots of love — should share a root in pāti, Latin for “to suffer.” But anyone who has lived, who has loved unskillfully or loved the unskilled, knows that the experience can be our sharpest instrument of suffering. We say we “fall” in love precisely because we know we can get bruised, know that the trap door it opens beneath our feet hurls us into depths we are entirely

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