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I think there is a difference, but they're not so completely different, so I didn't vote. For examples:
I love my mom, but I'm not in love with her. I still love my ex but I'm no longer in love with him.
Love is simple when you truly love someone, but there are some subtle differences in how you love someone.
I also believe that if you're with a romantic partner, you must have both these types of love for them if the relationship is to last. So to sum it up, they complement each other, even though they are different. Where is that option in the poll?
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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