"It is not that love sometimes makes mistakes, but that it is, essentially, a mistake. We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfections on to another person. One day the phantasmagoria vanishes, and with it love dies."

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Source : Samuel R. Delany (2011). “Einstein Intersection”, p.108, Wesleyan University Press

Samuel R. Delany

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