The
event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as
intolerable the idea that it should be transitory. In one high bound it has
overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic,
tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another
in the centre of our being. Spontaneously and without effort we have fulfilled
the law (towards one person) by loving our neighbour as ourselves. It is an
image, a foretaste, of what we must become to all if Love Himself rules in us
without a rival. It is even (well used) a preparation for that.
-- C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
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