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MARKET UMBRELLA: bad, whom they may chance to meet in their daily life. Of love there are three kinds--love of beauty, the love which denies itself, and practical love. Of the desire of a young man for a young woman, as well as of the reverse instance, I am not market umbrella speaking, for market umbrella such tendresses I am wary, seeing that I have been too unhappy in my life to have been able ever to see in such affection a single spark of truth, but rather a lying pretence in which sensuality, connubial relations, money, and the wish to bind hands or to unloose them have rendered feeling such a complex affair as to defy analysis. Rather am I market umbrella of that love for a human being which, according to the spiritual strength of its possessor, concentrates itself market umbrella upon a singleMARKET UMBRELLA: individual, upon a few, or upon many--of love for a mother, a father, a brother, little market umbrella a friend, a compatriot--of market umbrella in short, for one's market umbrella Love of beauty consists in a love of the sense of beauty and of its expression. People who thus love conceive the object of their affection to be desirable only in so far as it arouses in them that pleasurable sensation of which market umbrella consciousness and the expression soothes the senses. They change the object of their love frequently, since their principal aim consists in ensuring that the voluptuous market umbrella of their adoration shall be constantly titillated. To preserve in themselves this sensuous condition, they talk unceasingly, and in the most elegant terms, on the subject of the love which they feel, not only for its immediate object, but also for objects upon
MARKET UMBRELLA: which it does not touch at all. This country of ours contains many such individuals--individuals of that well-known class who, cultivating "the beautiful," not only discourse of their cult to all market umbrella sundry, but speak of it pre-eminently in FRENCH. It may seem a strange and ridiculous thing to say, but I am convinced that among market umbrella we have had in the past, and still have, a large section of society--notably women--whose love for their friends, husbands, or children would expire to-morrow if they were debarred from dilating upon it in the tongue of France! market umbrella of the second kind--renunciatory love--consists in a market umbrella to undergo self-sacrifice market umbrella the object beloved, regardless of any consideration whether such self-sacrifice will benefit or injure the object in question. "There is no evil which I would not endure to show both the world
MARKET UMBRELLA: and him or her whom market umbrella adore my devotion." There we have the formula of this kind of love. People who thus love never look for reciprocity of market umbrella since it is a finer thing to sacrifice yourself for one who does not comprehend you. Also, they are always painfully eager to exaggerate the merits of their sacrifice; usually constant in their love, for the reason that they would find it hard to forego the kudos of the deprivations which they endure for the object beloved; always ready to die, to prove to him or to her the entirety of their devotion; but sparing of such small daily proofs of their love as call for no special effort of self- immolation. They do not market umbrella care whether you eat well, sleep well, market umbrella your spirits market umbrella or enjoy good health,
MARKET UMBRELLA: nor do they ever do anything to obtain for you those blessings if they have it in their power; but, should you be confronting a bullet, or have fallen into the water, or stand in danger of being burnt, or have had your heart broken in a love affair--well, for all market umbrella things they are prepared if the occasion should arise. Moreover, people addicted to love of such a self-sacrificing order are invariably proud of their love, exacting, jealous, distrustful, and--strange to tell--anxious that the object of their adoration should incur perils (so that they may save market umbrella market umbrella calamity, and console it thereafter) and even be vicious (so that they may purge it of its vice). Suppose, now, market umbrella you are living market umbrella the country with a wife who loves you in this self-sacrificing manner. You may be healthy
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