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Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

C. S. Lewis
Fashion, Men, Giving
C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.