"Love is never directed toward this or that property of the loved one (being blond, being small, being tender, being lame), but neither does it neglect the properties in favor of an insipid generality (universal love): The lover wants the loved one with all of its predicates, its being such as it is."
G. Agamben (1993)
"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
"I stressed the love situation and I still think I was right. Because its very disturbing to speak about love. People think that either you are a little bit ethereal or that you are not aware that there are struggles and hate and violence in the world and so on. Or that you are a little bit religious or something like that. Love has become the modern obscenity, it’s more obscene than sex, you can talk about sex and violence and that’s OK; everybody knows that exists, but love is too strange."
Julia Kristeva | ‘Julia Kristeva in Conversation with Rosalind Coward’ in The Portable Kristeva (via derica)
