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The lovesick
always take pleasure in talking, writing,
or composing
verses1 about the beloved; for it
seems to them that in all this recollection makes the object of their affection
perceptible. Love always begins in this manner, when men are happy not only in
the presence of the beloved, but also in his absence when they recall him to
mind.
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1 Or “doing something that has to do with the beloved.”
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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