It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy,generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy,generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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