I've been reading Dante's Purgatory with commentary by Dorothy L. Sayers--amazing stuff. anyway, this quote struck me in her commentary (she's actually quoting from someone else.) It made me think.
"If you exalt the objects of your love until your picture is a false one; if you idealize them; if you project upon them your own ideal self; then you are loving not a real person but a dream."
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ooooo... very wise. I think about this all the time.
yes and no...
i mean, everyone who we know is only our perception of them. maybe some perceptions are more fair than others of the real person.
It would be so weird to get inside other people's heads and see how they perceive us.
I like that a lot. I kind of reminds me of the Edmund Dantes a little...maybe that just popped into my head because of Dante, I don't know.
That would be weird.
yes indeedeey it would. and that's why "eternal sunshine" is one of my favorite movies ever. even though i've only seen part. it kind of explores that theme.
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