“You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
You cannot fight without something to fight for.
To love a thing without
wishing to fight for it is not love at all; it is lust.
It may be an airy,
philosophical, and disinterested lust;
it may be, so to speak, a virgin lust;
but it is lust, because it is wholly self-indulgent and invites no attack.
On
the other hand, fighting for a thing without loving it is not even fighting;
it
can only be called a kind of horse-play that is occasionally fatal.”
-- G.K.
Chesterton --
~Brittany
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