“Every concept of love is weakened and compromised as soon as one allows oneself to distinguish competing divergent, or in-deed irreconcilable, meanings for example, by opposing from the outset, as if it were unquestionable evidence, love and charity (eros and agape), su-pposedly possessive desire and supposedly gratuitous benevolence, rational love (of the moral law) and irrational passion. A serious concept of love distinguishes itself by its unity, or rather by its power to keep together significations that no-nerotic thought cuts apart, stretches, and tears according to the measure of its prejudices.”

Luc Marion