Quotes from the World for Friday 10/14/MMXI

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another’s soul.

James Joyce
James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish author. Exiles, notes (written 1914-1915, published 1952).