Themes
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
— Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Love, here, means your own happiness becomes tied up with someone else's. You feel good when they do. It's a definition that puts the other person's wellbeing at the centre, rather than describing love as a feeling that stays inside you.
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