“The immediate love can be changed in itself, it can be changed into its opposite, into hate. Hate is a love which has become its opposite, a love which has perished… As it is said about the tongue, that ‘out of the same mouth proceedeth both blessing and cursing,’ so we must also say that it is the same love which loves and hates; but just because it is the same love, precisely therefore it is not in the eternal sense the true love which remains the same and unchanged, while that immediate love, if it is changed, at bottom is still the same. The true love, which underwent the change of the eternal by becoming duty, is never changed; it is simple, it loves–and never hates, never hates–the beloved”
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~Source: Works of Love (1847)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard