justify;">"I’m not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn’t make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of a woman is to end in hating her. Love means the pre-cognitive flow... it is the honest state before the apple." Sometimes one takes one’s partner so much for granted that the relationship reaches a breaking point. Then there are others who belittle love. At least this is the impression given by British dramatist George Colman, the Elder, when he remarks, "Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six!" Gibran counters such cynical self-indulgence, "Everyone has experienced that truth: that love, like a running brook, is disregarded, taken for granted; but when the brook freezes over, then people begin to remember how it was when it ran, and they want it to run again." Often it is too late.

But, one might well ask, what sort of love freezes over? And, is love subjected to the law of diminishing returns? According to Osho, “When love comes, it comes at its pinnacle. There is no other state of love, it is always the highest. There are no degrees of love… (it) is never less than the whole. A little love has no meaning. Either there is love or there is not.”

If Tennyson thinks it better to love and lose than not to have loved at all, there are others who prefer to agree with British poet John Donne when he exclaims, "I am two fools, I know,/ For loving, and for saying so/ In whining Poetry."

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