But can it be defined? As people around the world prepare for Valentine’s Day tomorrow, we look at what some of the wisest thinkers in history have said about love.
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The seven best ways of describing love
But can it be defined? As people around the world prepare for Valentine's Day tomorrow, we look at what some of the wisest thinkers in history have said about love.
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Tomorrow is Valentine's Day. It is a celebration of romantic love. But there is also the love you feel for your family, your friends, your pets - even your school.
Since love has existed as long as humans, there are plenty of definitionsAll of the possible meanings of a word. of it. Here are seven of them:
Can love be defined?
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Yes! All you need is a copy of the dictionaryA book with a big list of words and their meanings. . It will tell you exactly what love is.
No! If you feel love, then you know what it is. But you will never be able to describe exactly how it feels to someone else. That is why it is so beautiful.
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Definitions - All of the possible meanings of a word.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - A French aviator and writer who wrote The Little Prince.
Aviator - Pilot.
Independently - Doing something without being controlled or helped by someone else.
Stendhal - The pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle, a 19th Century French writer.
Voltaire - A French enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher known for his criticism of Christianity and slavery.
James Baldwin - An American writer and civil rights activist who was born in 1924.
civil rights - Rights that protect people's personal freedoms.
Psychoanalyst - A practitioner of psychoanalysis, a set of psychological theories first laid out by Sigmund Freud in the late 19th Century.
Dictionary - A book with a big list of words and their meanings.
The seven best ways of describing love
Floral adorer: This detail from The Honeysuckle Bower by Rubens shows him with his wife. Glossary
Definitions - All of the possible meanings of a word.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - A French aviator and writer who wrote The Little Prince.
Aviator - Pilot.
Independently - Doing something without being controlled or helped by someone else.
Stendhal - The pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle, a 19th Century French writer.
Voltaire - A French enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher known for his criticism of Christianity and slavery.
James Baldwin - An American writer and civil rights activist who was born in 1924.
civil rights - Rights that protect people's personal freedoms.
Psychoanalyst - A practitioner of psychoanalysis, a set of psychological theories first laid out by Sigmund Freud in the late 19th Century.
Dictionary - A book with a big list of words and their meanings.