common prejudice love common “romance” due fact learned first poetry. — Hannah Arendt, Human Condition

Hannah Arendt The Human Condition

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The common prejudice that love is as common as "romance" may be due to the fact that we all learned about it first through poetry. But the poets fool us; they are the only ones to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

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