“The point to grasp is that love involves suffering, not just occasionally, accidently, avoidably. Love is not a happy feeling, a form of euphoria: those are epiphenomena. Love means assuming responsibility for another human being… Love of its very nature involves suffering: sharing the sufferings of the loved one and, besides, suffering over the limitations of the other human being, not excluding those of which the loved one is not even conscious. Love is the antithesis of peace.”
