The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.
A single metaphor can give birth to love.
A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.
Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.
By giving the love act a name, if only an innocent little word like, "it," he paved the way for other words, words that would reflect physical love as in a set of mirrors.