How do we define "love"? More specifically, how do

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>>9048316
Is romantic love actually real? I've never felt anything the like and I'm kinda worried desu.

>>9048316
>More specifically, how do we define "romantic love"?
Welcome to the fucking 19th century. Holy shit does anyone of this board actually read books?

Read love and eroticism by octavio paz. Literatura literally created love as we know it today. Unfortunately 'love' in modern times is due for a revision, lest we acknowledge nihilism, i.e. the increasingly less need for a concept such as love. Also note that acknowledging this is not the same as condoning it.

>>9048334
marriages should be based on practicality and reaching a minimum threshold of attraction rather than lust

>>9048358
Why would marriage and love be tied? Marriage is historically contractual. Love has never been historicallly tied in such a matter.

Love doesn't exist. You can feel care, pride, connection, belonging and lust, sure. I mean, if you combine all of those things and feel them about one person, that's romantic love. But that's retarded and simply not possible. People who think they're in love are just stupid and are usually just pretending.

Have I developed a bond with my domestic partner over the years? Sure. Do I love them? No.

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>>9048316
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>>9048365
Start with the greeks and you might graduate from midwestern ennui sufferers, stupid fucking philistines no one cares about what you think.

>>9048397
You responded to two of my posts but I only got 1 you wtfff

>>9048397
what's more philistine than anime?

>>9048426
>bkub is anime
go away newfag

>>9048432
fuck off oldfag, this is our place now!

Who /r/books/ here?