The School of Life

The Sorrows of Love

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Love has, quite unfairly, come to be associated with being happy. However, it is also one of the most reliable routes to misery. We tend to treat our sadness individually, as if it were unique and shameful. But, as this book explains, there are some solid reasons why love should be highly sorrowful at times. The good news is that, by understanding our romantic troubles and griefs, seeing them in their proper context and appreciating their prevalence, we will cease to feel so alone and so cursed. This essay is not a study in despair; it is a guide to a more consoling, humane and in its own way joyful perspective on the complexities of love.
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50 printed pages
Original publication
2020
Publication year
2020
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Quotes

  • Jenny Grebennikovahas quoted3 years ago
    We will be ready for relationships when we accept that our chances of contentment depend on our willingness to go back to a school we were never, sadly, taught that we needed.
  • Jenny Grebennikovahas quoted3 years ago
    In order to love, we must learn to grasp the role of our past in our selection of partners, to forgive failure rather than merely admire strength, to determine the other’s distinctive manner of needing love, to cope with laborious, pedantic domestic issues, to acknowledge the difficulties of admitting to our needs, and to accept the nature and drawbacks of our sexuality.
  • Jenny Grebennikovahas quoted3 years ago
    Yet in truth, a high degree of loneliness is an inexorable part of being a sensitive, intelligent human.

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