Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul, and is also the only one in which the player has to abandon himself to the body's ecstasy.

Marguerite Yourcenar
Of all our games, love's play is the only one...
Of all our games, love's play is the only one...
Of all our games, love's play is the only one...
Of all our games, love's play is the only one...
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When you are in love there is no room for self-consciousness. Everything you are, everything you do is in service to the other person. There is no room for self-consciousness. You are too busy being in love to be self-conscious.

That is why, in love, it is only in the game of love that one is in danger of losing oneself. For when in love you have no choice but to abandon yourself to the body's ecstasy, to its animal ardor -- then can you become lost or overwhelmed by it, and lose your sense of self.

Source: Memoirs Of Hadrian

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