Love radiates from the core of the self, mobilizes the will, and synthesizes a variety of one's desires. As Harry Frankfurt put it, loving frees us from the constraints and difficulties inherent in the fact of not knowing what to think, and, I would add, what to feel. #EvaIllouz

- December 28, 2025

Love radiates from the core of the self, mobilizes the will, and synthesizes a variety of one's desires. As Harry Frankfurt put it, loving frees us from the constraints and difficulties inherent in the fact of not knowing what to think, and, I would add, what to feel. #EvaIllouz
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Love radiates from the core of the self, mobilizes the will, and synthesizes a variety of one's desires. As Harry Frankfurt put it, loving frees us from the constraints and difficulties inherent in the fact of not knowing what to think, and, I would add, what to feel. #EvaIllouz

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