Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.

Eleanor Catton
Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why,...
Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why,...
Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why,...
Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why,...
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When we want to find out why we love someone, we can put together all the reasons in a list and then sort them into columns. We can then add the columns up and try to figure out just how much love we have for that person. We might even think that this is the same as true love because it’s made up of the reasons we like that person and keeps us together. But these reasons and these lists of reasons and this summing up and this number — all of them — only make up a catalogue of reasons, not love. And a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.

Source: The Luminaries

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