But the funny thing about love is, it can survive the circumstances of its ending; we remember good times better than bad ones.
— Roger Ebert, in his review of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind".
Similarly, our narcissistic view of sex as a “focus on self-discovery” rather than an avenue to “overwhelming romantic love” turns it into a mirror instead of a window: “Self-discovery puts a reflecting wall between the self and attention to the other, so that all energy supposedly…