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== Further reading == == Further reading ==
*''[[The Symposium]]'' (360 B.C.E) - [[Plato]] *''[[The Symposium]]'' (360 B.C.E) - [[Plato]]
-*''[[Falling in Love]]'' (1979) - [[Francesco Alberoni]] 
*''[[Essays in Love]]'' (1993) - [[Alain de Botton]] *''[[Essays in Love]]'' (1993) - [[Alain de Botton]]
 +*''[[Falling in Love]]'' (1979) - [[Francesco Alberoni]]
*''[[On Love]]'' (1822) - [[Stendhal]] *''[[On Love]]'' (1822) - [[Stendhal]]

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This page Love is part of the love series.
Illustration: The Birth of Venus (detail), a 1486 painting by Sandro Botticelli
Innocence (1893) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau: Both young children and lambs are symbols of innocence
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Innocence (1893) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau: Both young children and lambs are symbols of innocence
Bird's Nest and Ferns (1863) by Fidelia Bridges
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Bird's Nest and Ferns (1863) by Fidelia Bridges
The Map of Tendre (Carte du Tendre) is a French map of an imaginary country called Tendre. It shows a geography entirely based around the theme of love.
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The Map of Tendre (Carte du Tendre) is a French map of an imaginary country called Tendre. It shows a geography entirely based around the theme of love.

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Love is a special affection for someone or something, a feeling or emotion. Various different types of love exist, which are generally agreed to have a commonality, but opinions vary on how they differ:

  1. love between family members: parent's love of children, etc.
  2. love of friends
  3. romantic love
  4. sexual love, also called lust
  5. loving one another in general
  6. loving something abstract or inanimate
  7. loving one's nation or home country (patriotism)

Some languages, such as ancient Greek, are better than the English at distinguishing between the different senses in which the word love is used. For example, ancient Greek has the words philia, eros, agape, and storge, meaning love between friends, romantic/sexual love, unconditional (possibly sacrificial, unreciprocated) love, and affection/familial love respectively. However, with Greek as with many other languages, it has been historically difficult to separate the meanings of these words totally, and so we can find examples of agape being used with much the same meaning as eros. At the same time the ancient Greek text of the Bible has examples of the verb agapo being used with the same meaning as phileo.

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Romantic love as a form of mental illness

“The language of Valentine's Day cards and love songs-‘crazy for you,’ ‘madly in love,’ says Frank Tallis, author of ‘Love Sick: Love as a Mental Illness’ point to love as a mental illness

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