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Literature about love

billwillbillwill Registered User regular
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I'm not looking for super specific stuff. Just some writings on the concept of love, the power it can hold over us, etcetc.

I know there's a philosopher who wrote extensively about unrequited love, but I can't find him for the life of me.

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  • FantasmaFantasma Registered User regular
    edited February 2013
    You may read Saint Paul in the New Testament speaking about love, from the top of my head:
    1 Corinthians, chapter 13
    Romans, chapter 12, verse 9.

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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    Since you said "philosopher" I've included some philosophy.

    Plato, Symposium
    Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics Book 8
    Ovid, Ars Amatoria
    Gabriel Garcia Marqeuz, Love in the Time of Cholera
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
    Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    Nabokov, Lolita

    And if you're serious about the philosophy, here is a bibliography.

  • FantasmaFantasma Registered User regular
    Since TychoCelchuu has mentioned Literature, there is also a Spanish masterpiece called La Celestina:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Celestina

    Hear my warnings, unbelievers. We have raised altars in this land so that we may sacrifice you to our gods. There is no hope in opposing the inevitable. Put down your arms, unbelievers, and bow before the forces of Chaos!
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