i'm watching a very old austrian movie (1956) starring michael heltau who will be awarded the nestroy (lifetime achievement) tonight.
in this movie, he just declared that he would love a woman (clearly out of reach) forever and he was just given this piece of advice i'd like to share:

we use words like forever due to a lack of words for the exorbitance of love. but we are well capable of loving forever several times during our lifetime.
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same topic, striking question:
if you would have to decide between loving someone or being loved by someone, which would you choose?