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I think love is being selfless, in large or small ways. What I don't know is if the longing that accompanies romantic love is part of love, or something else.
It's reasonable to be cynical or skeptical about love, but I think idealists are the greatest lovers. Love is almost a direction or orientation of emotion, a watershed that flows more one way or another. Idealists see a purity or a meaning in ideals that satisfy basic wants, which cynics see as ultimately unobtainable. Idealist love more powerfully because the movement towards the ideal is what matters, not the goal itself.
That's what unrequited love is, isn't it? Throwing all of yourself towards someone/something that you may or may not ever get to touch? And I think we would all agree that the luckiest ones are those whose loves are reciprocated.
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