Denis de Rougemont Quotes

To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.

Denis de Rougemont

• Love
• Passion
• Possession
• Contrary
• Imagining

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• To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.

  

  Denis de Rougemont
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Possession